A gammer, gudewife, old woman. A variety of gammer which is grande-mère (our grandmother), as gaffer is grand-père or grandfather. It occurs scores of times in Scott’s novels.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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