different between hammy vs gammy

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æmi

Etymology 1

ham +? -y

Adjective

hammy (comparative hammier, superlative hammiest)

1. Resembling or characteristic of ham.
2. Amateurish; characterized by overacting.

Translations

Noun

hammy (plural hammies)

1. (US, Australia, New Zealand, chiefly sports, slang) Clipping of hamstring; a hamstring injury.
   • 1999, Melissa Lucashenko, Hard Yards, University of Queensland Press, page 129,

     He put his palms flat on the ground, then grabbed the back of his knees, stretching his hammies for the millionth time that morning.

   • 2004, J. L. Roberts, Braggin' Rights: Fantasy Football Rewind 2004 (2003 Season Recap), AuthorHouse USA, page 83,

     A slow start and hammy injury were major contributors.

Alternative forms

• hammie

Translations

Etymology 2

hamster +? -y

Noun

hammy (plural hammies)

1. (informal, childish) A hamster.

Translations

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.