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gammed

English

Verb

gammed

  1. simple past tense and past participle of gam

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gammer

English

Etymology

Reduction of godmother or grandmother.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?æm?/

Noun

gammer (plural gammers)

  1. (obsolete) An old woman.
    • 1845, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides, Book the Fourth, Stanza IX:
      If thou return not, Gammer o'er her pail
      Will sing in sorrow, 'neath the brinded cow,
      And Gaffer sigh over his nut-brown ale []

Coordinate terms

  • gaffer

See also

  • Gammer Gurton's Needle, a 16th-century English comedy.

Anagrams

  • -gramme, gramme

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