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gammon

noun
/ˈɡæmən/

Etymology

From Middle English gamenen, gamene, from Old English gamnian, gæmnian, gamenian (“to joke, play”), from Proto-West Germanic *gamanōn, from Proto-Germanic *gamanōną (“to play, have fun, joke”). Cognate with Middle High German gamenen (“to mock, make fun of”), Icelandic gamna (“to have fun”). More at game.

  1. derived from καμπή
  2. derived from gamba
  3. derived from gambon
  4. inherited from *gammon✻

Definitions

  1. A cut of quick-cured pork leg.

    • [T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust.
    • I bake a piece of gammon that will be served both hot and, later, as cold cuts.

  2. To cure bacon by salting.

  3. To joke, kid around, play.

  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone).

    2. A joke, trick

      A joke, trick; play, sport, merriment.

    3. A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone.

    4. Backgammon (the game itself).

      • We started about 7:00 drinking beers and playing gammon. Then after getting a little “loose” we went to a girls dorm.

    5. A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning).

    6. To lash with ropes (on a ship).

      • “No, by thunder !” he cried, “it's us must break the treaty when the time comes; and till then I'll gammon that doctor, if I have to ile his boots with brandy.”

    7. Chatter, ridiculous nonsense.

      • Some people maintains^([sic]) that an Englishman's house is his castle. That's gammon.
      • “Gammon, Pen—go on,” Foker said.
      • He swore that all other religions were gammon, / And wore out his knees in the worship of Mammon.

    8. To deceive

      To deceive; to lie plausibly to.

    9. Fake, pretend

      Fake, pretend; bullshit.

      • I was just being gammon.

    10. A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively.

      • Yeah, let the bitch drown / Got the gammons all feeling sick now / Great Britannia's lost all hope, she's broke
      • I was expecting the Guardian to portray me as an old gammon and pair me up with some radical with coloured hair. Then she walked through the door with blue hair, which was rather amusing!

    11. the Shelta or Cant language of the Irish Travelling Community.

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Derived

gammoner

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA