GAFF, a fair, or penny-playhouse.—See [PENNY GAFF].
GAFFING, tossing halfpence, or counters.—North, where it means tossing up three pennies.
GALENY, old cant term for a fowl of any kind; now a respectable word in the West of England, signifying a Guinea fowl.—Vide Grose. Latin, GALLINA.
GALLAVANT, to wait upon the ladies.—Old.
GALORE, abundance. Irish, GO LEOR, in plenty.
GALLOWS, very, or exceedingly—a disgusting exclamation; “GALLOWS poor,” very poor.
GAME, a term variously applied; “are you GAME?” have you courage enough? “what’s your little GAME?” what are you going to do? “come, none of your GAMES,” be quiet, don’t annoy me; “on the GAME,” out thieving.
GAMMON, to hoax, to deceive merrily, to laugh at a person, to tell an untrue but plausible story, to make game of, or in the provincial dialect, to make GAME ON; “who’s thou makin’ thy GAM’ ON?” i.e., who are you making a fool of?—Yorkshire.
GAMMON, deceit, humbug, a false and ridiculous story. Anglo Saxon, GAMEN, game, sport.
GAMMY, bad, unfavourable, poor tempered. Those householders who are known enemies to the street folk and tramps, are pronounced by them to be GAMMY. Gammy sometimes means forged, as “GAMMY-MONEKER,” a forged signature; GAMMY STUFF, spurious medicine; GAMMY LOWR, counterfeit coin. Hants, GAMY, dirty. The hieroglyphic used by beggars and cadgers to intimate to those of the tribe coming after that things are not very favourable, is known as