Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nammer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: nam-mer
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Vietnamese person.

Slang

Example Sentences

""Nammers?" She'd told him before of some Vietnamese gang pressuring her to stroll for them. "Don't even ask. You don't want to know.""
"She placed the skaters at one end of the school, writing “hot guys” beside their name, and the Nammers or Vietnamese group in another corner, writing “cool kids” beside their name."
"For example, in Canada, Dillabough and Kennelly (2010) found that Vietnamese girls developed a subcultural style identified as the 'Nammers' associated with spandex clothing […]"

Etymology

From Nam + -er.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Nam

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

Nammers (plural)

Questions

What does nammer mean?: A Vietnamese person.
Where does nammer come from?: From Nam + -er.

How to pronounce nammer

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