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gammet

gammet verb: to play, frolic; amuse oneself, have a good time.

Verb

gammet (third-person singular simple present gammets, present participle gammetting, simple past and past participle gammetted)

  1. (dialectal) To play, frolic; amuse oneself, have a good time.
  2. (dialectal) To play practical jokes; trick, hoax.

Noun

gammet (countable and uncountable, plural gammets)

  1. (dialectal) Fun, frolic, sport.
  2. (dialectal) A game, joke, trick.

Forms of gammet

Verb
third-person singular presentgammets
present participlegammetting
past participlegammetted
pastgammetted
alternative formgammot
alternative formgammit
alternative formgamet
alternative formgamot
alternative formgamut
Noun
pluralgammets

Origin of gammet

Uncertain. Perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English *gammeten, *gametten (“to frolic, entertain, jest”), from Old English *gamnettan (“to entertain, amuse, play”), from Old English gamen (“fun, amusement”) + -ettan (verbal suffix).

Words formed from gammet

  • gammety

Questions about gammet

What does gammet mean?
Gammet means to play, frolic; amuse oneself, have a good time.
What part of speech is gammet?
Gammet can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of gammet?
The past tense of gammet is gammetted.

Words near gammet in the dictionary

  1. Gammels
  2. gammer
  3. gammers
  4. gammerstang
  5. gammerstangs
  6. gammet
  7. gammexane
  8. gammie
  9. gammier
  10. gammies
  11. gammiest

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