Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An elderly woman.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old woman: the correlative of gaffer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of
gaffer , an old man.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete An
old woman .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Well, I'm not a 'gammer' so I can't assist you with your question.
We Blog A Lot 2008
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All of you will also be broken heart when Obama losses GE, you watch and see and the only way it won't happen is if you put HC to the ticket and even that could also be a no gammer due to Obama!
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| Reply you know this was on de pc gammer podcast a while ago, the guy (from pc gammer), said that he used to boxed and that he was sending his request to box uwe boll … dont know if he is the one owe boll boxed with.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Uwe Boll Beats Up Critic in Boxing Match 2006
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Farewell, gammer; thanks and gramercy for your goods!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Farewell, gammer; thanks and gramercy for your goods!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The young man who was currently calling himself Arthur Heath had taken it off his saddle (it amused him to call the skull so perched their lookout, "ugly as an old gammer, but perfect cheap to feed") and hung it here as a prank greeting.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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Gaffer and gammer, man and maiden, were distributed, the ladies to the right of the aisle, the gentlemen to the left.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various
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_ Not I gammer indeed la, I dare not stay out late,
Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster Thomas Potts
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_ When you had put your self into a dogs skin, I pray how c'ud I help it; but gammer are not you a Witch? if you bee, I beg upon my knees you will not hurt me.
Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster Thomas Potts
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They must not be in contact, -- perhaps because gaffer will gossip with gammer, and youth and maid will toy.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various
vorpal commented on the word gammer
–noun British Archaic.
an old woman.
December 15, 2008