English
Adjective
yammery
- Any sort of overindulgence especially when dealing with sweets (candy, cookies, cola, yams ).
- Quotations
- When my mother entered my candy-wrapper-filled room she exclaimed "What is this yammery!"
Etymology
Derived from the scene in Invisible Man , a novel by Ralph Ellison , in which the narrator consumes yams voraciously.
Pronunciation