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Gammon in Hindi हिन्दी
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Gammon in English
- gammon⇄gammon (1), noun, verb.
- gammon⇄gammon (2), noun, verb.
in the game of backgammon: - gammon⇄gammon (3), noun, verb.
- gammon⇄gammon (4), transitive verb.
(Nautical.) to fasten (a bowsprit) close down to the stem of a ship. - gammon⇄noun (British Informal.) nonsense; humbug.
- gammon⇄noun a victory in which the winner throws off all his men before his opponent throws off any.
- gammon⇄noun gammoner.
- gammon⇄noun 1. the lower end of a side of bacon.
2. a smoked or cured ham. - gammon⇄v.i. 1. to talk nonsense, especially to deceive.
2. to feign; pretend.
Ex. I got up in a temper, and told him to leave me. He laughed, and said I was gammoning (Elizabeth A. Murray). - gammon⇄v.t. to cure by salting and smoking; make into bacon.
- gammon⇄v.t. to deceive; hoax.
Ex. to go and gammon old Mackenzie into the belief that he can read poetry (William Black). - gammon⇄v.t. to defeat (one's opponent) by a gammon.