gammer

noun
/ɡæmə/UK

Etymology

Reduction of godmother or grandmother.

Definitions

  1. An old woman.

    • If thou return not, Gammer o'er her pail Will sing in sorrow, 'neath the brinded cow, And Gaffer sigh over his nut-brown ale […]

The neighborhood

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