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Webster 1913 Edition

Bam

Bam

,
Verb.
T.
To cheat; to wheedle.
[Slang]
Foote.
2.
(Sports)
George Herman Ruth ("Babe" Ruth), the baseball player; – usu. in the form “the bambino”.

Webster 1828 Edition

Bam

BAM

or BEAM, as an initial syllable in names of places, signifies wood; implying that the place took its name from a grove, or forest.

Definition 2024

Bam

Bam

See also: bam, BAM, bầm, bấm, and -bam

Bavarian

Noun

Bam

  1. tree

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German boum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz. Cognate with German Baum, Dutch boom, English beam.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baːm/
    • Rhymes: -aːm

Noun

Bam m ‎(plural Beem, diminutive Beemchen)

  1. tree

bam

bam

See also: Bam, BAM, bầm, bấm, -bam, and ват

English

Interjection

bam

  1. Representing a loud noise or heavy impact.
    The wind knocked the tree over last night. Bam! It nearly scared me to death.
  2. Representing a sudden or abrupt occurrence.
    She said she dumped him. Now — bam! — they're back together.

Synonyms

Noun

bam ‎(plural bams)

  1. (Scotland, slang) ned, bampot.
  2. (dated) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Garrick to this entry?)I’ll break a lamp, bully a con stable, bam a justice, or bilk a boxkeeper with any man in the liberties of Westminster.

David Garrick, The Plays of David Garrick: A Complete Collection of the Social Satires, French Adaptations, Pantomimes, Christmas and Musical Plays, Preludes, Interludes, and Burlesques, ed. Harry William Pedicord and Fredrick Louis Bergmann, vol. 1 (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980), 93, http://www.questia.com/read/59320440.

    • Prof. Wilson
      To relieve the tedium he kept plying them with all manner of bams.

Verb

bam ‎(third-person singular simple present bams, present participle bamming, simple past and past participle bammed)

  1. (archaic, slang, slang, archaic) To impose on (someone) by a falsehood; to cheat.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Foote to this entry?)
  2. (slang, archaic) To jeer or make fun of.

Noun

bam ‎(plural bams)

  1. Abbreviation of bare-arse minimum.

Anagrams

Lojban

Rafsi

bam

  1. rafsi of jbama.

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *baumaz.

Noun

bām m

  1. tree
  2. bench
  3. seat

Declension

Descendants

  • West Frisian: beam
  • North Frisian:
    Föhr-Amrum & Mooring: buum
    Helgoland: Booam
    Sylt: boom
  • Saterland Frisian: Boom

Old Saxon

Noun

bām m

  1. Alternative form of bom

Volapük

Noun

bam ‎(plural bams)

  1. bench
  2. seat

Declension

Etymology

From Old High German boum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz.

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