Gameness, pluck, endurance, courage generally.
Gammon, deceit, humbug, a false and ridiculous story. Anglo-Saxon, GAMEN, game, sport.
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., of whom are you making a fool?—Yorkshire.
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-MONNIKER,” 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
, or GAMMY. Gaelic, Welsh, and Irish, CAM (GAM), crooked.
Gammy-vial (Ville), a town where the police will not let persons hawk.
Gander Month, the period when the monthly nurse is in the ascendant, and the husband has to shift for himself. Probably from the open choice he has during that period.
Ganger, the person who superintends the work of a gang, or a number of navigators.