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Definition of Brummie in English: Brummie(also Brummy) nounPlural Brummies ˈbrʌmi British informal A native of the British city of Birmingham. 〈英，非正式〉伯明翰人 Example sentencesExamples - We chose the name Rotunda ‘cos we're proud to be Brummies and wanted something to signify our roots and our identity.
- And just for the record, most Brummies do not talk like Noddy Holder from Sloide; that's a Black Country accent.
- I have more than a passing fondness for Brummies because I used to live there and frankly, not only are they all uncharacteristically good-looking, but they seem like a right laugh too.
- I still see a relegation battle for the Brummies.
- But in the meantime, look forward to Americans and others posting pictures of Jasper Carrott up on websites and declaring in silly voices: ‘We're all Brummies now!’
- Labour will win the election, despite punch-ups and irate Brummies outside hospitals, but they will not win it with any really clear policy on taxation.
- Thanks to Rob Manuel of B3ta fame who says: ‘Of course, what they need is a nice uplifting song that makes Brummies feel good about their city rather than just a new logo.’
- For all anyone could have known we could have been four fat, balding Brummies with one song, but people turned up to the gig completely blind.
- More than half of the playing fields were sold off for executive-detached style homes as the native Brummies moved south.
- Thousands of Brummies, desperate to escape the inner city, made their home in Tamworth during the 1960s.
- The BNP were expected to hold a meeting in Birmingham but after Brummies planned to stage a demonstration, the BNP backed off.
- Another beautiful summers day, we had lunch on the street, all European-like, and watched the beautiful Brummies go by.
- They had to fight all the way to the final whistle and resist a physical comeback by the Brummies, but director of rugby Ian Geary said: ‘I am absolutely delighted.’
- Instead of fleeing to the suburbs in the evening, Brummies are starting to move the other way.
- And we also made friends with a couple of colourful biker Brummies who were up in Edinburgh on holiday - one of which was a tattoo artist.
- And there were winning bows for Lee McAllister of Aberdeen and David McIntyre of Paisley, who beat Brummies Baz Carey and Andrew Robinson.
- Apparently the Brummies always make a point of visiting the local football ground on their many and varied travels.
- Their success is resented, Gianluca Vialli said last week, and the country's neutrals would side with the Brummies at the final.
- Something in the morning paper has reminded him of his brush with the Brummies from 1986-1988, a throwaway mention of Graham Turner, then manager of Villa, who persuaded him to leave Aberdeen and try his luck in England.
- I got really angry when, ten overs before the end of the match, the Brummies decided that they had lost and all went home.
adjective ˈbrʌmi informal 1British From or relating to Birmingham. 〈英，非正式〉（与）伯明翰（有关）的；来自伯明翰的 伯明翰口音。 Example sentencesExamples - It's the anniversary of Albert Einstein's birth in 1879 and the 58th birthday of Brummie comedian Jasper Carrott.
- The programme focuses on two friends - one a native of Tamworth, the other, a Brummie migrant, and how they are working towards the same ends.
- Then there is the Brummie twang of the landlord of the pub where Graham stays when recording the radio soap.
- Analysis Microsoft and Sendo have brought an end to a legal war that looked like it could bankrupt the Brummie start-up phone maker.
- And now she's discarding Punjabi and throwing on Brummy tones.
- For starters, their offspring already speak the local - virtually indecipherable - Brummie argot.
- The unwieldy narrative imposed on the Brummie auteur Mike Skinner's second album of fascinatingly mundane rapping and downbeat dance music smothered it somewhat, but this remains Britain's best new act.
- Passing close to Birmingham today, I'm amazed at the sudden change into Brummie drawl.
- The Preston middleweight faces another Brummie journeyman, William Webster, who has won once in 20 fights.
- It is shot from the perspective of little Meena, caught in a cross-cultural whirlwind between the small town where she is growing up and the source of her thick Brummie accent, and her Indian roots, of which she is wholly ignorant.
- It renews a long-standing love affair between the cable channel and the Brummie lecturer.
- I have to say it was an interesting conversation with his German accent and my Brummie tones!
- A keen golfer, the Brummie star has got his own desk in the media centre to cover the competition for Golf Monthly magazine.
- Some authorities say that it too was a Brummy cultural export.
- She was a major attraction in Educating Archie and on stage in the character of Marlene, a Birmingham girl with an exaggerated Brummie twang.
- Similar characters, complete with Brummie accents, entertained us in a slightly bizarre and surreal ‘interactive family show’ called Cadbury Land.
- They've managed to stamp Hip hop, a recent addition to the Brummie repertoire, firmly on the rap map.
- The latter is the warm-hearted Brummie lass who speaks from the heart.
- It's a would-be grossout comedy, starring Mackenzie Crook and Johnny Vegas as a couple of Brummie blokes on the pull.
- I thought it might have been that he was 2nd generation Jamaican, but listening closely the Brummie twang was overpowering any residual patois from his parents.
2Australian NZ Counterfeit, showy, or cheaply made. 〈澳〉伪造的；廉价的；俗丽的 珠宝赝品。
OriginEarly 19th century: from Brum. Rhymeschummy, crumby, crummy, dummy, gummy, lumme, mummy, plummy, rummy, scrummy, scummy, slummy, tummy, yummy |