Gammon

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A cut of quick-cured pork leg.

   “[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. fiil To cure bacon by salting.
3. fiil To joke, kid around, play.
4. fiil To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone).
5. isim A joke, trick; play, sport, merriment.
6. isim A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone.

   “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. isim Backgammon (the game itself).

   “We started about 7:00 drinking beers and playing gammon. Then after getting a little “loose” we went to a girls dorm.”

8. isim A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning).
9. fiil 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.””

10. isim Chatter, ridiculous nonsense.

    “Some people maintains^([sic]) that an Englishman's house is his castle. That's gammon.”

11. fiil To deceive; to lie plausibly to.
12. sıfat Fake, pretend; bullshit.

    “I was just being gammon.”

13. isim A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively.

    “Yeah, let the bitch drown / Got the gammons all feeling sick now / Great Britannia's lost all hope, she's broke”

14. özel isim the Shelta or Cant language of the Irish Travelling Community.