different between gammon vs backgammon

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: g?'m?n, IPA^(key): /??æm?n/
• Rhymes: -æm?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French gambon (compare modern French jambon (“ham”)), from gambe (“leg”), from Late Latin *gamba, from Ancient Greek ????? (kámp?), from Proto-Indo-European *kamp- (“to bend; crooked”). Doublet of jamon.

Noun

gammon (countable and uncountable, plural gammons)

1. A cut of quick-cured pork leg.

Translations

Verb

gammon (third-person singular simple present gammons, present participle gammoning, simple past and past participle gammoned)

1. To cure bacon by salting.

Etymology 2

Probably a special use of Middle English gamen (“game”).

Noun

gammon (countable and uncountable, plural gammons)

1. (backgammon) A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone.
2. (rare) Backgammon (the game itself).

Related terms

• backgammon

Verb

gammon (third-person singular simple present gammons, present participle gammoning, simple past and past participle gammoned)

1. (backgammon) To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone).

Translations

Etymology 3

Perhaps related to the first etymology, with reference to tying up a ham.

Noun

gammon (plural gammons)

1. (nautical) A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning).

Verb

gammon (third-person singular simple present gammons, present participle gammoning, simple past and past participle gammoned)

1. To lash with ropes (on a ship).

Translations

Etymology 4

Perhaps a special use of the word from etymology 2.

Noun

gammon

1. (dated) Chatter, ridiculous nonsense.
   • 1911: Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

     He swore that all other religions were gammon,
     And wore out his knees in the worship of Mammon.

Verb

gammon (third-person singular simple present gammons, present participle gammoning, simple past and past participle gammoned)

1. (colloquial, dated, transitive) To deceive; to lie plausibly to.

Etymology 5

Gained popularity in 2017 (in the phrase "Great Wall of Gammon", likening the referents' rosy complexions to gammon (“ham, bacon”)), although the metaphor was in use earlier: the BBC points to a 2016 use of "gammon face". Not related to the "gammon tendency" in Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby, where the word means "nonsense".

Noun

gammon (countable and uncountable, plural gammons)

1. (neologism, derogatory, Britain) A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively.

Further reading

• George Pierpoint (14 May 2018) , “Why your social media is covered in gammon”, in BBC News?^[1], BBC

See also

• Karen

References

English

Etymology

Probably from back + Middle English gamen, from Old English gamen (“amusement, game”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?b?kg?m?n, IPA^(key): /?bæk.?æm.?n/

Noun

backgammon (countable and uncountable, plural backgammons)

1. A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
2. (backgammon) A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.

Related terms

• gammon

Translations

See also

• tick-tack
• tric-trac, trick-track

Verb

backgammon (third-person singular simple present backgammons, present participle backgammoning, simple past and past participle backgammoned)

1. To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar.

Further reading

• backgammon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from English backgammon.

Noun

backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon (board game)

Finnish

Etymology

From English backgammon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæk??m(?)on/, [?bæk??m(?)o?n]
• Syllabification: back?gam?mon

Noun

backgammon

1. backgammon

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English backgammon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bak.?a.m?n/

Noun

backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon

See also

• trictrac

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English backgammon.

Noun

backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon

   Synonyms: tric trac, tavola reale

Spanish

Noun

backgammon m (uncountable)

1. backgammon

   Synonyms: chanchullo, chaquete, tablas reales