English

Adjective

bammy ‎(comparative bammier, superlative bammiest)

1. (Scotland, slang) Crazy.
   • 1992, James Kelman, "Let the Wind Blow High Let the Wind Blow Low", Some Recent Attacks, p. 86:

     Those who persist are shown up as perverse, slightly bammy, crackpots – or occasionally as unpatriotic.

   • 2009, Frankie Boyle, My **** Life So Far, HarperCollins 2010, p. 183:

     He was quite a bammy Glasgow guy who had hit on the idea of playing a Tolkienesque character who could turn things to mud with his magical finger.

Etymology 2

Noun

bammy ‎(plural bammies)

1. Jamaican cassava flatbread.

Scots

Etymology

Scottish form of barmy.

Adjective

bammy ‎(comparative bammier, superlative bammiest)

1. crazy, barmy, mental
   • 1999, David Armstrong, The First Teenagers, p. 22:

     He ran tae the windae, threw it open and clambered oot ontae the sill. Ah thought he'd gone bammy...ye know, right aff his heid!