different between disabled vs gammy

English

Etymology

From disable +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [d?s?e?b??d]

Adjective

disabled (comparative more disabled, superlative most disabled)

1. Made incapable of use or action.
   • 1911, "From Brittania Lodge, No. 361", Railway Carmen's Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3, March 1911, page 129:

     In the car department we would repair cars that were disabled and placed in bad order by a bunch of scalies taking the place of striking switchmen, engineers, Firemen, etc.

2. Having a disability.
3. (law) Legally disqualified.

Synonyms

• incapacitated
• indisposed
• invalid

Antonyms

• enabled

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

disabled (usually uncountable, plural disableds)

1. One who is disabled. (often used collectively as the disabled, but sometimes also singular)

Translations

Verb

disabled

1. simple past tense and past participle of disable

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æmi/
• Rhymes: -æmi

Etymology 1

Origin obscure and uncertain. Possibly from the English dialectal (North Midlands) adjective game (“lame”), Welsh "gam" (Crooked), or from the Irish cam (“bent”), by way of Shelta. Compare also Old Occitan gambi (“lame, limping”), related to Old Occitan gamba (“leg”) (see also French jambe (“leg”)).

Adjective

gammy (comparative gammier, superlative gammiest)

1. Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs).
   • 2005, Siobhan Roberts, John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician, in: The Guardian, July 23rd 2015

     In spring 2009, three years after he suffered a stroke that spared him intellectually but left him with a cane and a gammy right side, Conway delivered a six-part lecture series on his latest brainchild: The Free Will Theorem, devised with his Princeton colleague Simon Kochen.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Noun

gammy (plural gammies)

1. (colloquial) Grandmother.

Etymology 3

Unclear.

Noun

gammy (plural gammies)

1. (Scotland, slang, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.