different between gammer vs gimmer

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

From Middle English gimbyre, from Old Norse gymbr (“one year old ewe lamb”), from Proto-Germanic *gimr?? (“a yearling ewe-lamb”), from Proto-Indo-European *??yem- (“winter”).

Noun

gimmer (plural gimmers)

1. (Northern English dialect) A ewe between one and two years old.

Anagrams

• megrim

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse gymbr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j?m??r/

Noun

gimmer f (definite singular gimra, indefinite plural gimrar or gimrer, definite plural gimrane or gimrene)

1. a gimmer, a ewe between one and two years old

Further reading

• “gimmer” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse gymbr (“one year old ewe lamb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???m?r]

Noun

gimmer (plural gimmers)

1. a two-year-old ewe

Derived terms

• gimmer shell (“the scallop Pecten maximus or Aequipecten opercularis”)