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Gammon
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What's The Definition Of Gammon?
[n] hind portion of a side of bacon
[n] meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) Synonyms | Synonyms for Gammon: ham | jambon Related Terms | Find terms related to Gammon: absurdity | act | act a part | affect | amphigory | assume | babble | babblement | bacon | balderdash | balls | baloney | bamboozle | beguile | betray | bibble-babble | blabber | blague | blather | bluff | bombast | bosh | bull | bullshit | bunk | bunkum | butt | cajole | cheat on | chitterlings | circumvent | claptrap | cochon de lait | conjure | counterfeit | cover up | cracklings | crap | deceive | delude | diddle | dissemble | dissimulate | double-cross | double-talk | drivel | drool | dupe | eyewash | fake | fat back | feign | fiddledeedee | fiddle-faddle | flam | flimflam | flitch | flummery | folderol | forestall | four-flush | fudge | fustian | gabble | galimatias | get around | gibber | gibberish | gibble-gabble | gobbledygook | gull | ham | ham steak | haslet | headcheese | hoax | hocus-pocus | hogwash | hoke | hokum | hooey | hornswaggle | humbug | humbuggery | jabber | jambon | jambonneau | jargon | jiggery-pokery | juggle | lard | let down | let on | let on like | make a pretense | make as if | make believe | make like | mock | moonshine | mumbo jumbo | narrishkeit | niaiserie | nonsense | outmaneuver | outreach | outsmart | outwit | overreach | pack of nonsense | palaver | picnic ham | pieds de cochon | pig | pigeon | play | play a part | play one false | play possum | playact | pork | porkpie | prate | prattle | pretend | profess | put on | put something over | rant | rigamarole | rigmarole | rodomontade | rubbish | salt pork | sham | side of bacon | simulate | skimble-skamble | small ham | snow | sowbelly | string along | stuff and nonsense | stultiloquence | suckling pig | take in | trash | trick | trotters | trumpery | twaddle | twattle | twiddle-twaddle | two-time | vaporing | waffling See Also | bacon | cut of pork | flitch | prosciuto | side of bacon | Virginia ham Gammon In Webster's Dictionary \Gam"mon\ (-m[u^]n), n. [OF. gambon, F. jambon, fr. OF.
gambe leg, F. jambe. See {Gambol}, n., and cf. {Ham}.]
The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried;
the lower end of a flitch. --Goldsmith.
\Gam"mon\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gammoned} (-m[u^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Gammoning}.] To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke. \Gam"mon\, n. [See 2d {Game}.] 1. Backgammon. 2. An imposition or hoax; humbug. [Colloq.] \Gam"mon\, v. t. 1. To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his ``men'' or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person. 2. To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. [Colloq.] --Hood. \Gam"mon\, v. t. [Etymol. unknown.] (Naut.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron. --Totten. |
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