gammon

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 gă'mən

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cut of quick-cured pork leg. countable,uncountable
    — [T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust.
  2. A joke, trick; play, sport, merriment. countable,dialectal,uncountable
  3. A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning).
  4. Chatter, ridiculous nonsense. dated,uncountable
    — Some people maintains^([sic]) that an Englishman's house is his castle. That's gammon.
  5. A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively. UK,countable,derogatory,neologism,uncountable
    — Yeah, let the bitch drown / Got the gammons all feeling sick now / Great Britannia's lost all hope, she's broke
  6. A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone. countable,uncountable
    — Toward the end of the game Roger had not borne off a single stone belonging to Roseanna, and she scored a gammon. She could not hide the triumph in her eyes. “Perhaps you will play a better game if we play for something closer to your heart,” she suggested.
  7. Backgammon (the game itself). countable,rare,uncountable
    — We started about 7:00 drinking beers and playing gammon. Then after getting a little “loose” we went to a girls dorm.
动词 v.
  1. To cure bacon by salting.
  2. To joke, kid around, play. dialectal
  3. To lash with ropes (on a ship).
    — “No, by thunder !” he cried, “it's us must break the treaty when the time comes; and till then I'll gammon that doctor, if I have to ile his boots with brandy.”
  4. To deceive; to lie plausibly to. colloquial,dated,transitive
    — And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.
  5. To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone).
形容词 adj.
  1. Fake, pretend; bullshit. Papua-New-Guinea
    — I was just being gammon.

词形变化

gammons plural gammons present,singular,third-person gammoning participle,present gammoned participle,past gammoned past gammons present,singular,third-person gammoning participle,present gammoned participle,past gammoned past gamen alternative gammen alternative gammin alternative gamon alternative gammons plural gamen alternative gammen alternative gammin alternative gamon alternative gammons plural gammons present,singular,third-person gammoning participle,present gammoned participle,past gammoned past gammons present,singular,third-person gammoning participle,present gammoned participle,past gammoned past more gammon comparative most gammon superlative gammons plural

词汇关系

衍生词
gammoner
相关词
backgammon

词源

词源 1
From Middle English *gammon, gambon, from Old French gambon (compare modern French jambon (“ham”)), from gambe (“leg”), from Late Latin gamba, from Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ). Doublet of jambon and jamon.
词源 2
From Middle English gamenen, gamene, from Old English gamnian, gæmnian, gamenian (“to joke, play”), from Proto-West Germanic *gamanōn, from Proto-Germanic *gamanōną (“to play, have fun, joke”). Cognate with Middle High German gamenen (“to mock, make fun of”), Icelandic gamna (“to have fun”). More at game.
词源 3
Perhaps related to the first etymology, with reference to tying up a ham.
词源 4
Perhaps a special use of the word from etymology 2.
词源 5
Gained popularity in 2017 (in the phrase "Great Wall of Gammon", likening the referents' rosy complexions to gammon (“ham, bacon”)), although the metaphor was in use earlier: the BBC points to a 2016 use of “gammon face”.
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