gammy

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Grandmother. colloquial
    — Had our beloved gammy lost it?
形容词 adj.
  1. Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs).
    — I have got a gammy leg, and can't walk far.
  2. Fake; counterfeit. obsolete,slang
    — A little bit of real lace would be fixed on this as in process of making, and a lot of "gammy" stuff, imitation lace, would be carried with it.
  3. Bad; unfavourable. obsolete,slang

词形变化

gammier comparative gammiest superlative gammie alternative gammies plural gammie alternative

词源

词源 1
Origin obscure and uncertain. Possibly from the English dialectal (North Midlands) adjective game (“lame”), Welsh cam (“crooked”), or from Irish cam (“bent”), by way of Shelta. Compare also Old Occitan gambi (“lame, limping”), related to Old Occitan gamba (“leg”) (see also French jambe (“leg”), English gam (“leg”)).
词源 2
Abbreviation + -y.
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