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Definition: GAMMER |
GAMMERNoun1. An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man. |
Date "GAMMER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references) |
"GAMMER" is a common misspelling or typo for: Gummer. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Gammer (g hard). A corruption of grandmother, with an intermediate form "granmer." (See Halliwell, sub voce.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Veteran | Noun: veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard; grandfather, grandsire; grandam; gaffer, gammer; crone; pantaloon; sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian; old stager; dotard. |
Woman | Dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs. lady, donna belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer; Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani; good woman, good wife; squaw; wife. (marriage); matronage, matronhood. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: GAMMER |
| Specialty definitions using "GAMMER": Cummer ♦ Gammer Gurton's Needle. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "GAMMER": gaffer. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gammer | 6 |
gammer pc | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GAMMER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Plakë (Babushka, Goody, grannie, granny, old woman). (various references) | |
Arabic | إمرأة عجوزة (harpy, old woman). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Старица. (various references) | |
Czech | Stará Žena. (various references) | |
Dutch | oudje (old woman), oude vrouw (old woman), besje (old woman). (various references) | |
Esperanto | maljunulino (old woman). (various references) | |
French | Vieille Femme. (various references) | |
German | Mütterchen (mam, mammy, mom, mommy, mother). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Anyóka. (various references) | |
Italian | mammina (mum, mummy). (various references) | |
Manx | shenn-chaillagh (geezer, harridan). (various references) | |
Papiamen | biehita (old woman). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ammergay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | velhota (Goody), velha (old, old woman), raio gama. (various references) | |
Romanian | femeie bãtrânã (grandam, harridan), bunicã (grand ma, grand mamma, grandam, Grandmamma, grandmother, granny), båtrinå (old woman). (various references) | |
Russian | старуха (crone, old woman, trot). (various references) | |
Scottish | cailleach (old wife, old woman). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | starica (anile, beldam, beldame, old woman), baba (grandmother, old woman). (various references) | |
Turkish | yaşlı kadın (crone, Dame, Goody, grandam), kocakarı (Beldam, beldame, crone, frump, hag, harridan, old woman). (various references) | |
Yucatec | xnuk (old woman). (various references) | |
Zulu | isalukazi (old woman). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | anus, cinis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GAMMER": gammers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "GAMMER" (pronounced 'Gam"mer'): Aglimmer, Aphorismer, Brimmer, bummer, Crammer, Gummer, Hemmer, hummer, Mammer, Nimmer, Omer, Ormer, Rammer, Rhythmer, Rimmer, rummer, Scrimer, shammer, skimmer, Stemmer, swimmer, Vaagmer, Vomer. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gramme. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-m-m-r" | |
-1 letter: gamer, gemma, marge, regma. | |
-2 letters: ager, game, gear, germ, gram, mage, mare, rage, ream. | |
-3 letters: age, are, arm, ear, era, erg, gae, gam, gar, gem, mae, mag, mar, meg, mem, rag, ram, reg, rem. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, am, ar, em, er, ma, me, mm, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-m-m-r" | |
+1 letter: gammers, gammier, grammes, rummage. | |
+2 letters: aglimmer, engramme, gammoner, rummaged, rummager, rummages. | |
+3 letters: brummagem, engrammes, gammoners, germanium, hammering, immigrate, mammering, programme, rummagers, scrimmage, scrummage, yammering. | |
+4 letters: aerogramme, anagrammed, argumentum, brummagems, diagrammed, germaniums, immigrated, immigrates, microimage, mimeograph, monogramed, programmed, programmer, programmes, scrimmaged, scrimmager, scrimmages, scrummaged, scrummages, seismogram, stammering, thermogram, trammeling. | |
+5 letters: aerogrammes, agamospermy, ideogrammic, lammergeier, lammergeyer, macrogamete, magisterium, merrymaking, microgamete, microimages, micromanage, mimeographs, mismarriage, monogrammed, monogrammer, programmers, rehammering, scrimmagers, seismograms, telegrammed, thermograms, trammelling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 41 4D 4D 45 52 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- -- -- . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01000001 01001101 01001101 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G A M M E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0041 004D 004D 0045 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)413547473952 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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