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接尾辞

-bam

1. used to form the imperfect indicative of most Latin verbs

   ‎amō (“to love”) + ‎-bam → ‎amābam (“I was loving”)

Conjugation

It correlates with the conjugation of the present subjunctive forms of the third conjugation:

関連する語

• -bō

語源 1

Onomatopoeic.

間投詞

bam

1. Representing a loud noise or heavy impact.

   The wind knocked the tree over last night. Bam! It nearly scared me to death.

   • 2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep‎, New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 266:

     We all looked up from the maps, silent, and listened to the hurried footsteps in the entryway. They padded up the red carpet, bam-bam-bam, and across the landing and then up the next flight at a gallop, bam-bam-bam.

2. Representing a sudden or abrupt occurrence.

   She said she dumped him. Now — bam! — they're back together.

同意語

• bang
• blam
• pow
• wham
• dishoom (India)

派生語

語源 2

名詞

bam (plural bams)

1. (Scotland, slang) A ned; a bampot.

語源 3

Perhaps from bamboozle.

名詞

bam (plural bams)

1. (slang, archaic) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
   • 1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius, and Character of Burns:

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

動詞

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

1. (slang, archaic) To impose on (someone) by a falsehood; to cheat.
   • 1774, Samuel Foote, The Cozeners:

     This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money

   • 1747, David Garrick, Miss in Her Teens: or the Medley of Lovers, Act II, in 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

     I’ll break a lamp, bully a constable, bam a justice, or bilk a boxkeeper with any man in the liberties of Westminster.

2. (slang, archaic) To jeer or make fun of.

語源 4

名詞

bam (plural bams)

1. Abbreviation of bare-arse minimum. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

アナグラム

• -mab, ABM, B. M. A., BMA, MAb, MBA, Mab, Mba, amb, amb., mAb, mab

限定詞

bām

1. dative/instrumental masculine/feminine/neuter plural of bēġen