different between gammer vs dammer

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

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English dammer, dammar, equivalent to dam +? -er.

Noun

dammer (plural dammers)

1. One who builds a dam.

Etymology 2

Noun

dammer (plural dammers)

1. Alternative form of damar

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• rammed

Danish

Noun

dammer c

1. indefinite plural of dam

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?.m?r/
• Hyphenation: dam?mer
• Rhymes: -?m?r

Etymology 1

From dammen +? -er.

Noun

dammer m (plural dammers, diminutive dammertje n)

1. A player of checkers.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Malay damar, from Proto-Malayic *damar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dama?.

Noun

dammer m (uncountable)

1. Archaic form of damar.

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Anagrams

• dramme

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

dammer m

1. indefinite plural of dam