Nammer

English

Etymology

From Nam +‎ -er.

Noun

Nammer (plural Nammers)

1. (slang) A Vietnamese person.
   • 1998, Joseph Ferone, Boomboom, page 24:

     "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."

   • 2008, S. Pomerantz, Girls, Style, and School Identities: Dressing the Part, page 67:

     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.

   • 2015, T. Barber, Oriental Identities in Super-Diverse Britain, page 175:

     For example, in Canada, Dillabough and Kennelly (2010) found that Vietnamese girls developed a subcultural style identified as the 'Nammers' associated with spandex clothing […]

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