gammon
/ˈɡæmən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.51 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To joke, kid around, play.
verb
To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone).
Example Sentences
- "[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."
- "Toward the end of the game Roger had not borne off a single stone belonging to Roseanna, and she scored a gammon. She could not hide the triumph in her eyes. “Perhaps you will play a better game if we play for something closer to your heart,” she suggested."
- "We started about 7:00 drinking beers and playing gammon. Then after getting a little “loose” we went to a girls dorm."
- "“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.”"
- "Some people maintains^([sic]) that an Englishman's house is his castle. That's gammon."
Etymology
From Middle English *gammon, gambon, from Old French gambon (compare modern French jambon (“ham”)), from gambe (“leg”), from Late Latin gamba, from Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ). Doublet of jambon and jamon.
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Inflected Forms
gammons (plural)
gammons (present, singular)
gammoning (participle, present)
gammoned (participle, past)
gammoned (past)
gamen (alternative)
gammen (alternative)
gammin (alternative)
gamon (alternative)
more gammon (comparative)
most gammon (superlative)