Gammon

Definition: Gammon

Gammon

Noun

1. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).

2. Hind portion of a side of bacon.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gammon" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Gammon

Deception

Decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap, ensnare; nick, springe; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime; trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over; (influence); gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble.

Falsehood

Lip homage, lip service; mouth honor; hollowness; mere show, mere outside; duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug; jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism; Machiavelism, "organized hypocrisy"; crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery; charlatanism, charlatanry; gammon; bun-kum, bumcombe, flam; bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery; Judas kiss; perfidy; (bad faith); il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti.

Crosswords: Gammon

References

• Gammon Pakistan Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• The Gammon Directory for Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "gammon": smoked gammon. Additional references.

Ending with "gammon": back-gammon.

Albanian

gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash), proshutë (bacon, ham), mashtrim (bilk, blind, bluff, bunco, bunko, caper, cheat, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, con, cozenage, crammer, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, delusion, dodge, double dealing, duplicity, fake, false pretences, falsity, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gag, gimmick, guile, gyp, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, juggler, jugglery, juggling, leasing, lie, manipulation, overreach, quackery, racket, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, rig, roguery, sham, swindle, take in, trick), kofshë derri (ham). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فخذ خنزير, ‏هراء خادع. (various references)

Bulgarian 

шунка (ham), врели-некипели, опушвам месо, марс (round-top, top), жамбон, будалкам (play along, put off), баламосване (jive, kid, leg pull), пушен бут, правя марс, плещя (flap, talk nonsense, yap), плещене (slipslop, twaddle, yap). (various references)

Czech

uzená slanina, uzená šunka, podvod (cheating, con, deceit, deception, dupery, falsehood, fiddle, flam, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gold brick, guile, imposition, imposture, racket, swindle, take in, trick, trickery). (various references)

Danish

saltet skinke, bacon (bacon). (various references)

Dutch

gerookte ham, bacon (bacon, streak). (various references)

Finnish

savustettu kestokinkku, savupekoni (bacon, streak). (various references)

French

poitrine fumée, lard maigre, jambon sec fumé, cuisse, blague (gag, game), bacon. (various references)

German

geräucherter Schinken. (various references)

Greek 

καπνιστό χοιρομέρι, καπνιστό χοιρομήριο, καπνιστό ζαμπόν, χοιρομέρι (ham), απάτη (beguilement, bilk, cheat, circumvention, con, deceit, deception, delusion, fake, fallacy, fraud, guile, gyp, hoax, humbug, humbuggery, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, scam, sham, spoof, swindle, swindling, trick, trickery), τάβλι (backgammon, checkers). (various references)

Hungarian

füstölt sonka. (various references)

Italian

quarto (fourth, quarter, watch), prosciutto affumicato, prosciutto (ham), pancetta affumicata (bacon), inganno (catch, cheat, craft, deceit, deception, dupery, flam, guile, hoax, humbug, imposition, imposture, swindle, swindling, trick, trickery, wile). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ギターの弦 (boy, fee paid to performing artists, gadget bag, gag, gal, gallery, gap, gather, gathered skirt, gibberellin, gift, gift card, gift certificate, gift check, gift coupon, gift package, gift shop, gimmick, give up, give-and-take, guarantee, guignol, Guiness Book of Records, guitar amplifier, guitar magazine, guitar string, guitar synthesizer, guitarist, gypsum, kind of Indian spice, male waiter, teenage mother). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ギャモン . (various references)

Manx

kease vuickey jaaghit. (various references)

Pig Latin

ammongay.(various references)

Portuguese

ganhar (acquire, attain, carry off, earn, gain, get, make, score, win), gamão (asphodel, backgammon), truque (artifice, bogie, fake, gag, gouge, juggle, knack, legerdemain, trick), toucinho (bacon, lard), salgar (brine, corn, kipper, salt), presunto (ham), pernil, lograr (bilk, cheat, chouse, circumvent, cod, cozen, deceive, diddle, dupe, fob, fool, fox, gouge, gyp, inveigle, jockey, let in, mystify, out-jockey, overreach, put it over, spoof, succeed, trick), engano (blunder, bunco, cheat, chouse, circumvention, cozenage, deceit, deception, delusion, error, fault, feint, fraud, gag, hoax, imposition, invention, inveracity, mare's-nest, miscalculation, miss, mistake, misunderstanding, overreach, sham, slip, take-in, tripping), enganar (abuse, avoid, bamboozle, befool, beguile, belie, blind, bluff, cheat, chisel, chouse, cod, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, double, double-cross, duck, dupe, err, fake, falsify, finesse, flimflam, fob, foist, fool, fox, gag, gouge, green, gull, gyp, ha, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hum, humbug, impose, inveigle, jink, jockey, juggle, lace, lie, lurch, mislead, mock, mystify, out-jockey, overreach, palm, rip off, skin, sklent, spoof, take in, trepan, trick, victimize, wangle, wile), defumar (bloat, fume, kipper, perfume, puff, smoke). (various references)

Romanian

trage pe sfoarã (bilk, chisel, con, diddle, do, do brown, do the dirty, double cross, fob, fool, Fox, impose, kid, let in, nobble, take in, trick, wangle), pulpã (haunch, pulp), prostii (apple-sauce, balderdash, bosh, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, fudge, moonshine, mush, nonsense, poppy-cock, rats, rubbish, skittles, stuff and nonsense, tosh, trash, tripe), pãcãli (cheat, deceive, diddle, do, dupe, fool, get, gull, hoax, hocus, hornswoggle, kid, let in, lime, nobble, outflank, outsmart, outwit, sell, Spruce, stuff, trick, trump, twist), marţ, joc de table (backgammon), fleacuri (babble, bosh, bunk, cheese, fiddlededee, fiddle-faddle, flim-flam, froth, humbug, odd trifles, skittles, tosh, tripe, whatnot), festã (farce, hoax, practical joke, prank, shuffle), şuncã (bacon, ham), afuma (burn, corn, cure, deodorize, disinfect, fume, fumigate, perfume, pickle, reek, scent, smoke, smoke out, smoke-dry, smudge, steam, sulphur). (various references)

Russian 

вздор (all my eye, balderdash, baloney, blah, boloney, bosh, fiddlesticks, flimflam, fudge, humbug, jiggery pokery, kibosh, mush, nonsense, poppycock, rot, rubbish, tommy rot, tommyrot, tosh), окорок (ham, hindquarter), обман (bunco, bunko, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, cram, deceit, deception, dissimulation, do, double cross, double dealing, false pretence, false pretences, foul play, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudging, gag, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, hanky-panky, have on, have-on, hokum, humbug, imposture, jugglery, leasing, leg pull, legerdemain, lie, lurk, overreach, skin-game, spoof, swindle, take in, take-in, trick, trickeries, trickery, wile), болтовня (badinage, banter, blether, cackle, chat, chatter, chitchat, clatter, confabulation, footle, gab, gas, gassing, gossip, gup, hubble bubble, jive, mag, patter, piffle, rattle, spiels, tattle, tittle tattle, twaddle, waffle, wish-wash). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prevara (bilk, blind, bubble, cheat, chicanery, confidence trick, deceit, deception, dodge, double cross, dupery, eyewash, fake, flimflam, fraud, guile, gyp, plant, racket, ruse, setup, trick, trumpery), dimljena šunka. (various references)

Spanish

tocino de panceta (bacon, streak), jamón (ham), comer jamón, bacon (bacon, streak). (various references)

Swedish

rökt skinka (cured ham, ham), humbug (bubble, humbug, humbuggery, phoney, sham). (various references)

Turkish

zırva (balderdash, baloney, bilge, blather, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, bunkum, eyewash, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, flimflam, garbage, gassing, hooey, jabber wocky, nonsense, punk, raving, ravings, rot, rubbish, stuff, tommyrot, twaddle), yalan (deceit, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, fib, flam, hollow, invention, lie, made up, mendacious, plumper, prevarication, quack, sham, shave, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tell a lie, telltale, untrue, untruth, untruthful), tiringa halatı, tavlada yenmek, saçma lâf, kandırmak (argue, bait, bamboozle, befool, beguile, cheat, con, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, dish, dissuade, dupe, entice, fast-talk, finagle, flimflam, fool, get round, gyp, hornswoggle, induce, intrigue, inveigle, jockey, jolly, kid, lead on, lie, persuade, play with, put across, put over, rope in, sell smb. a pup, serve a trick, spoof, stall off, stick, string, string along, stuff smb., take in, trick, wheedle), hile (adulteration, artifice, arts, canard, catch, cheat, cheating, chicane, cobweb, collusion, craft, cross, deceit, deception, decoy, device, do, dodge, doubling, dupery, duplicity, fake, false pretences, false pretenses, finesse, flam, flimflam, fraud, gadget, gaff, gambit, gimmick, gouge, hanky panky, have, have on, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, imposture, jiggery pokery, maneuver, manipulation, manoeuvre, plant, ploy, practice, pretense, rig, rigging, rip off, ruse, sell, sham, sleight of hand, slyness, subterfuge, tortuosity, trick, trickery, wheeling and dealing, wile), domuz budu, dolandırmak (bilk, bunco, cheat, chisel, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do down, do in, double cross, flimflam, gold brick, gull, gyp, have, hornswoggle, jockey, Nick, nobble, racketeer, rook, rotate, sell smb. a gold brick, sell smb. a pup, spoof, swindle, take in), dalavere (cheating, chicane, deception, do, fiddle, gerrymander, hankeypankey, hanky panky, intrigue, jobbing, maneuver, manoeuvre, ploy, rigging, rouser, sell, swindle, trick), boş konuşmak (gab, haver, jaw, prate, talk the hind legs off a donkey, trifle), aldatmak (bamboozle, be unfaithful, bilk, cheat, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, do down, double cross, fake, feint, finagle, Fox, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, palter, play smb. false, put it over on, sell, sell smb. a packet, sell smb. a pup, spoof, string, stuff smb., take for a ride, take in, trick, two time, victimize). (various references)

Ukrainian

коптити окіст, окіст, обман (bam, bamboozle, beguilement, bilk, bluff, bunko, cheat, chouse, circumvention, cozenage, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, foist, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gouge, guile, hanky panky, hoax, imposture, juggle, jugglery, lie, overreach, phoney, phony, pretence, pretense, ruse, sell, sham, swindle, trickery, victimization, wile). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự lừa phỉnh (spoof), sự lừa dối (beguilement, cozenage, deceifulness, deceit, deception, delusion, duplicity, falsehood, lie), sự lừa bịp (bamboozlement, delusion, have-on), jambon, đùi lợn muối v� hun khói. (various references)

gamba. (various references)

gambon. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "gammon": gammoned, gammoner, gammoners, gammoning, gammons. (additional references)

Words ending with "gammon": backgammon. (additional references)

Words containing "gammon": backgammons. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Gammon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eammon, famon, gaman, gambon, Gamman, gammen, gammil, gammin, gamo, gamon, Gamson, Gandon, ganmon, Ganzon, Giambono, Gimona, gummo, Gummow, gummunt, Pammon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: among, mango.

-2 letters: agon, ammo, mano, moan, noma, ogam.

-3 letters: ago, gam, gan, goa, mag, man, moa, mog, mom, mon, nag, nam, nog, nom.

-4 letters: ag, am, an, go, ma, mm, mo, na, no, om, on.

+1 letter: gammons.

+2 letters: gammoned, gammoner, mamboing, monogamy, monogram, nomogram.

+3 letters: commonage, gammadion, gammoners, gammoning, gemmation, groomsman, monogamic, monograms, nomograms.

+4 letters: backgammon, commanding, commonages, gemmations, goddamming, hemangioma, homemaking, immolating, mammocking, meningioma, monogamies, monogamist, monogamous, monogramed.

+5 letters: ammoniating, ammonifying, backgammons, commutating, emmenagogue, gourmandism, hemangiomas, homemakings, immigration, magnanimous, mailbombing, megalomania, megalomanic, meningiomas, micromanage, moneymaking, monogamists, monograming, monogrammed, monogrammer, moviemaking, pantomiming, programming.