bamma

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Etymology

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Perhaps from Alabama (which is sometimes informally shortened to Bama).

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Noun

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bamma (plural bammas)

  1. (African-American Vernacular, derogatory) An unstylish rural person; a hick.
    • 2008, "A Blessing in Disguise", A Real Black Woman is the Closest Thing to God, page 44:
      A lot of dudes that I knew at that time use to think that guys from Maryland was bammas but I didn't sleep on nobody because even a bamma can pull a trigger. I always knew that even if a guy was from cotton ball land, he could still do damage.
    • 2011, Stan Long, Black Bird Medley: The Transformation of a Gangster, page 16:
      Black didn't like them much. He said to me one day, “Stan, why do you hang around them bammas?” Bamma meant “country” or “slow” or something of that nature.
    • 2012, Larry Moon Jr, Drama City, page 151:
      “Man, there's a bamma that just came home from jail trying to intimidate and extort my youngins.”

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