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Gamʹmon (g hard)

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A corruption of gamene. Stuff to impose upon one’s credulity; chaff. (Anglo-Saxon, gamen, scoffing; our game, as “You are making game of me.”)

Gammon (g hard) means the leg, not the buttock). (French, jambon, the leg, jambe; Italian, gamba.)

 

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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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Game
Game
Game-leg
Game for a Spree
Game is not worth the Candle (The)
Game’s Afoot (The)
Gamelyn
Gammer (g hard)
Gammer Gurton’s Needle
Gammon (g hard)
Gammut, or Gamut (g hard)
Gamp (Mrs.)
Gamps and Harrises
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Gander (g hard)
Gander-cleugh
Gander-month
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