Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bad; unfavorable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Injured , or notfunctioning properly . - noun Scotland, slang, vulgar A
blowjob ;fellatio . - noun colloquial
grandmother
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (British informal) sore or lame
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word gammy.
Examples
-
He has a "gammy" hand and needs to wear a calliper on his right leg and uses a walking stick.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010
-
He has a "gammy" hand and needs to wear a calliper on his right leg and uses a walking stick.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010
-
Save for a snide aside by Andrew's 90-year-old "gammy" (the irrepressible Betty White), little is made of Margaret being older than Andrew - a reality reflected in Bullock's own marriage to James, who is five years younger.
unknown title 2009
-
Interestingly, cam has, in addition, been posited as the source of the dialectal game or gammy, meaning ` lame. '
-
The porter introduced me to one of those venerable ancient types all colleges possess: he had a gammy leg and a skin disease and a collection of harpsichords in his rooms.
-
If I had the money sure, I would go buy the whole shammy gammy outfit but I don't.
-
If I had the money sure, I would go buy the whole shammy gammy outfit but I don't.
-
It was possibly as bad an all-round fielding side as has taken the field for England, notwithstanding the best wicketkeeper the game has seen; from A for Amiss, whose love of fielding was in inverse proportion to that for batting, to W for Willis, Willey – he of the gammy knee – and Woolmer, whom Keith Fletcher referred to as the Porky Fat Wobbler.
How the finer arts of fielding caught on with England | Mike Selvey 2011
-
Canny souls with gammy legs or some other disability, would, for up to £150 a time, assume the identity of someone who had received call-up papers and attend the medical on their behalf, ensuring that they were excused service.
London in the blitz: How crime flourished under cover of the blackout 2010
-
"A very light touch on the red button switches it all off," she says, which is a blessing for her, because jumping in and out of the armchair with her gammy ankle to switch over every time the Face came on was wearing her out.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.