Meaning

3 senses
  1. (UK, countable, derogatory, informal, sometimes)A person who speaks the Black Country dialect.

  2. (UK, derogatory, informal, sometimes, uncountable)The dialect spoken in the Black Country.

  3. (colloquial, uncountable)Heroin.

Origin

From the local use of "yow am" (or "yow'm") instead of "you are". Unknown. Perhaps from y

From the local use of "yow am" (or "yow'm") instead of "you are".

Unknown. Perhaps from yam or yum yum.

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Forms

plural: yam yams
Singularyam yam
Pluralyam yams

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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