different between gam vs goam

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

From Italian gamba (“leg”). Doublet of gamba, jamb, and gamb.

Noun

gam (plural gams)

2. (slang) A person's leg, especially an attractive woman's leg.
   • 2010, Home Swell Home: Designing Your Dream Pad ?ISBN, page 19:

     Make the salesclerk blush by flashing some gam and asking him to mix a bucket in your flesh tone.

   • 2012 September 10, Ariel Levy, "The Space In Between", in The New Yorker:

     The women's-liberation movement of the late sixties and the seventies – the so-called second wave of feminism – introduced Americans to the notion that their mothers and sisters and daughters ought not to be "objectified": that there was something wrong with reducing female people to boobs, gams, and beaver.

Etymology 2

Uncertain but surely formed within English; etymons may include game or gammon.

Noun

gam (plural gams)

1. Collective noun used to refer to a group of whales, or rarely also of porpoises; a pod.
   • 1862, Henry Theodore Cheever, The Whalemen's Adventures in the Southern Ocean, Darton & Hodge, page 116:

     Upon getting into a "gam" of whales, this boat, together with that of one of the mates, pulled for a single whale that was seen at a distance from the others, and succeeded in getting square up to their victim unperceived.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gam.
2. (by extension) A social gathering of whalers (whaling ships).
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, Harper and Brothers, chapter 53:

     But what is a Gam? You might wear out your index-finger running up and down the columns of dictionaries, and never find the word, Dr. Johnson never attained to that erudition; Noah Webster’s ark does not hold it. Nevertheless, this same expressive word has now for many years been in constant use among some fifteen thousand true born Yankees. Certainly, it needs a definition, and should be incorporated into the Lexicon. With that view, let me learnedly define it. Gam. NOUN—A social meeting of two (or more) Whaleships, generally on a cruising-ground; when, after exchanging hails, they exchange visits by boats’ crews, the two captains remaining, for the time, on board of one ship, and the two chief mates on the other.

   • 1916, Harry B. Turner, Nantucket's Early Telegraph Service, in the Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association, page 50:

     There is still that yearning for news from Nantucket that there was when the whale-ships stopped for a gam out in the far-distant Pacific Ocean […]

   • 1997, Gillies Ross, Margaret Penny, This Distant and Unsurveyed Country ?ISBN, page 14:

     If time was available, whaling prospects poor, and the weather gentle, a gam might last all day and include tea and dinner.

Translations

Verb

gam (third-person singular simple present gams, present participle gamming, simple past and past participle gammed)

1. (nautical, transitive, intransitive) To pay a social visit on another ship at sea.
2. (US, dialect) To engage in social intercourse anywhere.

References

Anagrams

• AGM, GMA, MAG, MGA, Mag., mag

Acehnese

Noun

gam

1. boy

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Bandjalang

Noun

gam

1. (Wahlubal) hair of the head

Synonyms

• guhndun

Catalan

Etymology

From gamar-se.

Noun

gam m (plural gams)

1. A wasting diseases, particularly distomatosis.

   Synonym: gamadura

Further reading

• “gam” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Garo

Noun

gam

1. stuff

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English gum.

Noun

gâm m

1. glue, paste

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?am/

Classifier

gam

1. classifier for a long, green plant, like a tree, grass or a flower

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Middle English

Noun

gam

1. Alternative form of game

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• gaim, gem

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gyemos.

Noun

gam (gender unknown)

1. winter, winter storm

Derived terms

• gemred

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “gaim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Contraction of aig + mo (at my) or aig + am (at their)

Pronoun

gam

1. me (direct object)

   A bheil thu gam chluinntinn? - Do you hear me?

2. them (direct object)

   Cha robh i gam faicinn. - She didn't see them.

Usage notes

• As me lenites the following word.
• As them used before words beginning with b, f, m or p; otherwise gan is used.
• Although this can be thought of as filling the function of a direct object pronoun, it is actually a form of possessive, and can therefore only be used in a periphrastic tense formed with a verbal noun, never as the object of a finite verb. Tha e gam chluinntinn is literally "he is at the hearing of me", whereby gam represents "at ... of me". With a finite verb, the genuine object pronouns would be used: Chluinn e mi he heard me, chluinn e iad, he heard them.

Related terms

• ga
• gad
• gan
• gar
• gur
• iad
• mi

Swedish

Noun

gam c

1. a vulture or condor; scavenging birds living in Africa, Europe, Asia and America
2. (colloquial) someone who takes advantage of a demise or a bankruptcy, usually in a legal, but, for the affected people, offensive way

   Innan konkurshandlingarna ens var undertecknade samlades gamarna i verkstaden för att se vad som var värt att sälja vidare

Declension

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??am]

Noun

gam

1. village

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 29

Turkish

Etymology

From Persian ??? (?am).

Noun

gam (definite accusative gam?, plural gamlar)

1. sorrow

See also

• envâ-? gam
• kayg?lar

Vietnamese

Etymology

Borrowed from French gramme.

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [?a?m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [?a?m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [?a?m??]

Noun

gam

1. gram (unit of mass)

Volapük

Noun

gam (nominative plural gams)

1. bride, groom

Declension

Derived terms

• higam
• jigam

Zazaki

Noun

gam

1. step

English

Etymology

Variant of gorm/gaum, which see for more.

Verb

goam (third-person singular simple present goams, present participle goaming, simple past and past participle goamed)

1. (rare) To see, to recognize, to take notice of.
   • 1866, The United Presbyterian magazine, page 359:

     One of Mr Scott's elders, who came from the west, used to meet Mrs Scott on her way to Jedburgh, when he never goamed her; but when he met her returning in the afternoon he always lifted his hat, and made obeisance.

   • 1884, Charles Stuart, David Blythe: The Gipsy King : a Character Sketch, page 131:

     He never goamed the lassie afterwards, and, in his despair, he began to drink, and drank heavily. He knew his rival by sight, and, knowing the road he would take to reach his home, Scott waylaid and beat him to death on Greenlaw Muir.

   • 1897, Peter Hay Hunter, John Armiger's Revenge, page 21:

     "He never goam'd me," the aggrieved countryman would say with much bitterness.

Related terms

• gorm (“gape, gawk”)
• gaum (“understand; comprehend; consider”)

Anagrams

• AMOG, GOMA, Goma, gamo-, ogam

Scots

Etymology

From the same Middle English word as gaum and gorm (and goam), which see for more.

Verb

goam (third-person singular present goams, present participle goamin, past goamt, past participle goamt)

1. To see; to pay attention to.
   • 1836, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland:

     The puir creature paid the most marked attention to the young man, scarcely goaming me; but, for a' that, I could see plainly aneugh that she preferred me in her heart.