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Definition of Gammy
1. Adjective. (British informal) sore or lame. "A gammy foot"
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Similar to: Unfit
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
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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