different between gammy vs hobbling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æmi/
• Rhymes: -æmi

Etymology 1

Origin obscure and uncertain. Possibly from the English dialectal (North Midlands) adjective game (“lame”), Welsh "gam" (Crooked), or from the Irish cam (“bent”), by way of Shelta. Compare also Old Occitan gambi (“lame, limping”), related to Old Occitan gamba (“leg”) (see also French jambe (“leg”)).

Adjective

gammy (comparative gammier, superlative gammiest)

1. Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs).
   • 2005, Siobhan Roberts, John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician, in: The Guardian, July 23rd 2015

     In spring 2009, three years after he suffered a stroke that spared him intellectually but left him with a cane and a gammy right side, Conway delivered a six-part lecture series on his latest brainchild: The Free Will Theorem, devised with his Princeton colleague Simon Kochen.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Noun

gammy (plural gammies)

1. (colloquial) Grandmother.

Etymology 3

Unclear.

Noun

gammy (plural gammies)

1. (Scotland, slang, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.

English

Verb

hobbling

1. present participle of hobble

Noun

hobbling (plural hobblings)

1. The movement of one who hobbles.
   • 1715, John Gay, The What D'Ye Call It?

     With frisks and vagaries,
     Ye fairies and goblins,
     With hoppings and hobblings,
     Come all, come all
     To Sir Roger's great hall.