Definition of Gammy

1. Adjective. (British informal) sore or lame. "A gammy foot"


Definition of Gammy

1. Adjective. Injured, or not functioning properly. ¹

2. Noun. (Scotland slang vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio. ¹

3. Noun. (colloquial) grandmother ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gammy

1. lame [adj -MIER, -MIEST] - See also: lame

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gammy

gammies
gammiest
gamming
gammock
gammocked
gammocks
gammon
gammon and spinach
gammoned
gammoner
gammoners
gammoning
gammons
gammopathies
gammopathy
gamo-
gamodeme
gamodemes
gamogenetic
gamomania
gamomaniac
gamomaniacs
gamomanias
gamomorphism
gamont
gamopetalous
gamophagia

Literary usage of Gammy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"gammy, bad, unfavourable, poor tempered. Those householders who are known enemies ... gammy-vial (Ville), a town where the police will not let persons hawk. ..."

2. The Slang Dictionary: Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast by John Camden Hotten (1865)
"gammy, bad, unfavourable, poor tempered. Those householders who are known enemies to the street folk and tramps are pronounced by them to be gammy. ..."

3. The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood: Illustrated by Conversations and by C. Clough Robinson (1862)
"gammy " is also used in a general sense ;—a queer dispositioned, an eccentric-actioned person, is a " gammy fellah," or crooked, as we suppose the meaning ..."

4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"He's very bad; he's getten a gammy leg." (2) idle, good for nothing. MACCLESFIELD. "He's a gammy sort o' chap; he spends hafe his toime i'* public haise. ..."

5. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"... a forged signature; "gammy people," people who are hostile to the tramps. Hotten says that the hieroglyphic used by beggars or ..."

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