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Brummagem is an adjective used to describe cheap or inferior manufactured goods, generally used in place of better articles. The usage of the term broadened to generally mean low-quality, before lapsing into disuse.
The term derives from a local pronunciation of the word Birmingham; in the Victorian period, it was one of the world's largest industrial cities, and produced a bewildering variety of goods. Many of these were intended for a mass consumer market, and thus were fairly cheap and shoddy - costume jewellery, imitation gems, and the like.
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