Gammy

Definition: Gammy

Gammy

Adjective

1. (British informal) sore or lame; "a gammy foot".

"Gammy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gammy" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	7	133,076

Expression using "gammy": gammy leg. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "gammy": gammy-legged.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "gammy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i çalë (flawed, lame, limping). (various references)

Czech		kurážný (gamy, plucky, spirited, spunky). (various references)

German		lahm (crippled, dreary, dull, feeble, flat, game, lame, lamely, lifeless, naff, paralysed, sleepy, slow, sluggish, stiff, tame, tamely). (various references)

Hebrew		צולע (cripple, halt, lame, limping). (various references)

Hungarian		nyomorék (cripple, crippled, disabled, game, handicapped, lame), csonka (game, incomplete, lame, maimed, stumpy), béna (cripple, crippled, game, half-assed, halting, lame, maimed, paralytic). (various references)

Italian		zoppo (cripple, crippled, lame, lame person, limping), storpio (cripple, crippled, maimed). (various references)

Pig Latin		ammygay.(various references)

Portuguese		trinca do mastro, aleijado (cripple, crippled, infirm, lame). (various references)

Russian		хромой (halting, lame, limping). (various references)

Spanish		lisiado (cripple, crippled, hurt, injured, lame), cojo (cripple, dot and go one, lame, one-legged). (various references)

Swedish		halt (concentration, content, crippled, fibre, fineness, halt, lame, percentage, slippery, stop, substance, value). (various references)

Turkish		sakat (cripple, crippled, crock, defective, disabled, funny, game, handicapped, incapable of working, infirm, invalid, lame, lame duck, malformed, wonky), aksak (game, halting, hipshot, interrupted, lame, limping, lopsided, palsied). (various references)

Ukranian		кульгавий (badger-legged, cripple, dot and go one, halt, lame), кривий (awry, bandy, bent, cam, cripple, crook, crooked, lame, wry). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Gammy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bammy, Galmoy, gamay, gami, gamm, gamme, gammil, Ganny, gemmie, gemy, gimny, glammy, gomm, gommy, grammys, igamy, rammy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-m-m-y"
	-1 letter: gamy.
	-2 letters: gam, gay, gym, mag, may, yam.
	-3 letters: ag, am, ay, ma, mm, my, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-m-m-y"
	+3 letters: homogamy, kymogram, misogamy, monogamy, zymogram.
	+4 letters: chammying, gymnasium, kymograms, mammalogy, shammying, yammering, zymograms.
	+5 letters: gamesomely, gymnasiums, lymphogram, mythmaking, plasmogamy.
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