Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gamgee

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.83 in modern English

Syllables: gamgee
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

British usage; Uncountable

name

Etymology

From Gamgee Tissue, a surgical dressing containing cotton wool, invented by Dr. Joseph Sampson Gamgee in Birmingham, England, in 1880.

Usage

British usage
Uncountable

Inflected Forms

Gamgees (plural)

Derived Forms

gamgee

Questions

What does gamgee mean?: cotton wool
Where does gamgee come from?: From Gamgee Tissue, a surgical dressing containing cotton wool, invented by Dr. Joseph Sampson Gamgee in Birmingham, England, in 1880.

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