gammon

UK /ˈɡæmən/ US /ˈɡæmən/

noun 7verb 5adj 1name 1

Definitions

noun

A cut of quick-cured pork leg.

[T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust.

I bake a piece of gammon that will be served both hot and, later, as cold cuts.

verb

To cure bacon by salting.

verb

To joke, kid around, play.

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

Collocations

VERB + GAMMON

eat, playing, prefer, scored

GAMMON + NOUN

doctor, mustard

PREP.

after, till, with

ADV.

then, then

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)

ham
jambon

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

back gammon player

A person, chiefly a homosexual, who has anal sex.

Sir Thomas found it convenient to believe Doctor Nooth's assertion, and therefore packed up his baggage and effects to sail for England, on board the Triumph, with his military fri

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I bake a piece of gammon that will be served both hot and, later, as cold cuts.

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Toward the end of the game Roger had not borne off a single stone belonging to Roseanna, and she scored a gammon. She could not hide the triumph in her eyes. “Perhaps you will play a better game if we

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We started about 7:00 drinking beers and playing gammon. Then after getting a little “loose” we went to a girls dorm.

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“No, by thunder !” he cried, “it's us must break the treaty when the time comes; and till then I'll gammon that doctor, if I have to ile his boots with brandy.”

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Some people maintains^([sic]) that an Englishman's house is his castle. That's gammon.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, gammon is marked as dated, derogatory, rare, colloquial, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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