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Word entry · 6 letters

gammon

Best crossword clue

"Cured ham"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡæmən/Part of speech nounSorted agmmnoStarts with GEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. hind portion of a side of bacon

Word origin

From Middle English *gammon, gambon, from Old French gambon (compare modern French jambon (“ham”)), from gambe (“leg”), from Late Latin gamba, from Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ). Doublet of jambon and jamon.

Used in a sentence

  • I bake a piece of gammon that will be served both hot and, later, as cold cuts.
  • We started about 7:00 drinking beers and playing gammon. Then after getting a little “loose” we went to a girls dorm.
  • “No, by thunder !” he cried, “it's us must break the treaty when the time comes; and till then I'll gammon that doctor, if I have to ile his boots with brandy.”

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