gammons

Noun (1)

gammon (countable and uncountable, plural gammons)

1. 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.1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 40

Noun (2)

gammon (countable and uncountable, plural gammons)

1. (dialectal) A joke, trick; play, sport, merriment.
2. A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone.
   • 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 play for something closer to your heart,” she suggested.2009 July 29, Virginia Henley, The Raven and the Rose, Island Books, →ISBN, page 210
3. (rare) Backgammon (the game itself).
   • We started about 7:00 drinking beers and playing gammon. Then after getting a little “loose” we went to a girls dorm.2008 03, Zanzibar McFate, I Battled a Giant Otter: My Gut Bustin', Mutha Lovin' Life of Manly Adventure, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 131

Noun (3)

gammon (plural gammons)

1. A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning).

Noun (4)

gammon (uncountable)

1. (dated) Chatter, ridiculous nonsense.
   • Some people maintains^([sic]) that an Englishman's house is his castle. That's gammon.1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XXIV, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 251

   Synonyms:

   gammon and pickles

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