gammon
(noun) hind portion of a side of bacon
ham, jambon, gammon
(noun) meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
gammon (countable and uncountable, plural gammons)
A cut of quick-cured pork leg.
gammon (third-person singular simple present gammons, present participle gammoning, simple past and past participle gammoned)
To cure bacon by salting.
gammon (plural gammons)
(backgammon) A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone.
(rare) Backgammon (the game itself).
gammon (third-person singular simple present gammons, present participle gammoning, simple past and past participle gammoned)
(backgammon) To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone).
Perhaps related to the first etymology, with reference to tying up a ham.
gammon (plural gammons)
(nautical) A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning).
gammon (third-person singular simple present gammons, present participle gammoning, simple past and past participle gammoned)
To lash with ropes (on a ship).
Perhaps a special use of the word from etymology 2.
gammon
(dated) Chatter, ridiculous nonsense.
gammon (third-person singular simple present gammons, present participle gammoning, simple past and past participle gammoned)
(colloquial, dated) To deceive, to lie plausibly.
gammon (countable and uncountable, plural gammons)
(neologism, pejorative, UK) A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively.
Gammon
(Ireland) the Shelta or Cant language of the Irish Travelling Community.
• The term Gammon is most widely used by its native speakers in Ireland, but the language is known to the linguistic community as Shelta. Cant, or the Cant, is used by non-native speakers.
Source: Wiktionary
Gam"mon, n. Etym: [OF. gambon, F. jambon, fr. OF. gambe leg, F. jambe. See Gambol, n., and cf. Ham.]
Definition: The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Goldsmith.
Gam"mon, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gameed; p. pr. & vb. n. Gameing.]
Definition: To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
Gam"mon, n. Etym: [See 2d Game.]
1. Backgammon.
2. An imposition or hoax; humbug. [Colloq.]
Gam"mon, v. t.
1. To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person.
2. To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. [Colloq.] Hood.
Gam"mon, v. t. Etym: [Etymol. unknown.] (Naut.)
Definition: To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron. Totten.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 May 2025
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