Definitions of gammon [ˈgæm ən]

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Definition of 'gammon'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) gammon
a victory in backgammon in which the loser has not thrown off any pieces.

2. (v.t.) gammon
to beat by winning a gammon.

3. (Brit.) gammon
a smoked or cured ham.

4. gammon
the lower end of a side of bacon.

5. (Brit. Informal.) gammon
deceitful nonsense; bosh.

6. (v.i.) gammon
to talk gammon.

Etymology: (1710–20)

Definition of 'gammon'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) ham, jambon, gammon
meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)

2. (noun) gammon
hind portion of a side of bacon

Definition of 'gammon'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) gammon
the buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch

2. (noun) gammon
backgammon

3. (noun) gammon
an imposition or hoax; humbug

4. (verb) gammon
to make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke

5. (verb) gammon
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

6. (verb) gammon
to impose on; to hoax; to cajole

7. (verb) gammon
to fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron

Translation of 'gammon'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the meat of the leg of a pig, salted and smoked.
Afrikaans: ham	Arabic: لَحْم خَنْزير مُدَخَّن	Bulgarian: пушен свински бут
Brazilian: presunto	Czech: šunka	German: geräucherter Schinken
Danish: yderlår; røgeskinke	Greek: παστό χοιρομέρι	Spanish: jamón ahumado o curado co
Estonian: suitsusink	Farsi: ران دودی یا نمک زدۀ خوک	Finnish: kinkku
French: jambon fumé	Hebrew: קוֹתֶל-חָזִיר מְעוּשָׁן	Hindi: सुअर का मांस
Croatian: dimljeni svinjski but	Hungarian: füstölt sonka	Indonesian: daging asap
Icelandic: reykt eða saltað svínslær	Italian: prosciutto affumicato	Japanese: くん製ハム
Korean: 베이컨을 만드는 돼지 옆구리 아래쪽의 고기	Lithuanian: kumpis	Latvian: šķiņķis
Malay: gamon	Dutch: gerookte achterham	Norwegian: røykt skinke
Polish: szynka wędzona	Persian: ران دودی یا نمک زدۀ خوک	Pashto: دخوګ دورانه غوښه چې مالګه
Portuguese: presunto	Russian: окорок	Slovak: šunka
Slovenian: prekajena gnjat	Serbian: usoljen svinjski but	Swedish: skinka
Thai: แฮม	Turkish: domuz budu pastırması	Taiwanese: 醃燻火腿
Ukrainian: окорок	Urdu: سؤر کے پٹھے اور ران کا سک	Vietnamese: giăm bông
Chinese: 腌猪腿，火腿
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