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gam⋅mon

1  [gam-uhn] Backgammon.
Use gammon in a Sentence
–noun
1. the game of backgammon.
2. a victory in which the winner throws off all his or her pieces before the opponent throws off any.
–verb (used with object)
3. to win a gammon over.
Origin:
1720–30; perh. special use of ME gamen game 1

gam⋅mon

2  [gam-uhn]
–noun
1. a smoked or cured ham.
2. the lower end of a side of bacon.
Origin:
1480–90; < OF gambon ham (F jambon), deriv. of gambe; see jamb 1

gam⋅mon

3  [gam-uhn] British Informal.
–noun
1. deceitful nonsense; bosh.
–verb (used without object)
2. to talk gammon.
3. to make pretense.
–verb (used with object)
4. to humbug.
Origin:
1710–20; perh. special use of gammon 1

Related forms:
gam⋅mon⋅er, noun
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gam·mon 1   (gām'ən)   
n.  A victory in backgammon reached before the loser has succeeded in removing a single piece.
tr.v.   gam·moned, gam·mon·ing, gam·mons
To defeat in backgammon by scoring a gammon.

[Probably from Middle English gamen, gammen, game, from Old English gamen.]
gam·mon 2   (gām'ən)   
n.  
  1. Misleading or nonsensical talk; humbug.
  2. Gammon See Shelta.
v.   gam·moned, gam·mon·ing, gam·mons

v.   tr.
To mislead by deceptive talk.
v.   intr.
To talk misleadingly or deceptively.

[Origin unknown.]
gam'mon·er n.
gam·mon 3   (gām'ən)   
n.  
  1. A cured or smoked ham.
  2. The lower part of a side of bacon.

[Middle English gambon, from Old North French, from gambe, leg, from Late Latin gamba, hoof; see gambol.]
gam·mon 4   (gām'ən)   
tr.v.   gam·moned, gam·mon·ing, gam·mons
To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a ship.

[Origin unknown.]
Shel·ta   (shěl'tə)   
n.  A secret jargon used by traditionally itinerant people in Great Britain and Ireland, based on systematic inversion or alteration of the initial consonants of Gaelic words. Also called Cant, Gammon.

[From Shelta Sheldrū, perhaps alteration of Irish Gaelic béarla, language, English, from Old Irish bélrae, language, from bél, mouth.]
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Gammon

Gam"mon\ (-m[u^]n), n. [OF. gambon, F. jambon, fr. OF. gambe leg, F. jambe. See Gambol, n., and cf. Ham.] The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. --Goldsmith.

Gammon

Gam"mon\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gammoned (-m[u^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Gammoning.] To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke. [1913 Webster]

Gammon

Gam"mon\, n. [See 2d Game.]

1. Backgammon.

2. An imposition or hoax; humbug. [Colloq.]

Gammon

Gam"mon\, v. t. 1. To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person.

2. To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. [Colloq.] --Hood.

Gammon

Gam"mon\, v. t. [Etymol. unknown.] (Naut.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron. --Totten.
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Language Translation for : gammon
Spanish: jamón ahumado o curado con sal,
German: geräucherter Schinken,
Japanese: くん製ハム
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gammon 
1486, from O.N.Fr. gambon "ham," from gambe "leg," from L.L. gamba "leg of an animal." Originally "the ham or haunch of a swine."
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