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Webster 1913 Edition


Gammon

Gam′mon

(găm′mŭn)
,
Noun.
[OF.
gambon
, F.
jambon
, fr. OF.
gambe
leg, F.
jambe
. See
Gambol
,
Noun.
, and cf.
Ham
.]
The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
Goldsmith.

Gam′mon

(găm′mŭn)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Gammoned
(găm′mŭnd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Gammoning
.]
To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.

Gam′mon

(găm′mŭn)
,
Noun.
[See 2d
Game
.]
1.
Backgammon.
3.
An imposition or hoax; humbug.
[Colloq.]
2.
To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.
[Colloq.]
Hood.

Gam′mon

,
Verb.
T.
[Etymol. unknown.]
(Naut.)
To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
Totten.

Webster 1828 Edition


Gammon

GAM'MON

, n.
1.
The buttock or thigh of a hog, pickled and smoked or dried; a smoked ham.
2.
A game, called usually back-gammon, which see.

GAM'MON

,
Verb.
T.
To make bacon; to pickle and dry in smoke.
1.
To fasten a bowsprit to the stem of a ship by several turns of a rope.

GAM'MON

,
Verb.
T.
In the game of back-gammon, the party that, by fortunate throws of the dice or by superior skill in moving, withdraws all his men from the board, before his antagonist has been able to get his men home and withdraw any of them from his table, gammons his antagonist.

Definition 2024


Gammon

Gammon

See also: gammon

English

Proper noun

Gammon

  1. (Ireland) the Shelta or Cant language of the Irish Travelling Community.

Usage notes

  • The term Gammon is most widely used by its native speakers in Ireland, but is known to the linguistic community as Shelta. Cant, or the Cant, is used by non-native speakers.

gammon

gammon

See also: Gammon

English

Noun

gammon (plural gammons)

  1. The lower or hind part of a side of bacon.
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 (plural gammons)

  1. (backgammon) A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not taken a single stone; (also, rarely, backgammon, the game itself).
Related terms

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 taking 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 (plural gammons)

  1. (dated) Chatter, ridiculous nonsense.

Verb

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

  1. (colloquial, dated) To deceive, to lie plausibly.
    • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
      And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.