Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Bad; unfavorable.

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  • adjective Injured, or not functioning properly.
  • noun Scotland, slang, vulgar A blowjob; fellatio.
  • noun colloquial grandmother

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  • adjective (British informal) sore or lame

Etymologies

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From the Irish cam (bent), by way of Shelta.

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Examples

  • He has a "gammy" hand and needs to wear a calliper on his right leg and uses a walking stick.

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010

  • He has a "gammy" hand and needs to wear a calliper on his right leg and uses a walking stick.

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010

  • Save for a snide aside by Andrew's 90-year-old "gammy" (the irrepressible Betty White), little is made of Margaret being older than Andrew - a reality reflected in Bullock's own marriage to James, who is five years younger.

    unknown title 2009

  • Interestingly, cam has, in addition, been posited as the source of the dialectal game or gammy, meaning ` lame. '

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2 1983

  • The porter introduced me to one of those venerable ancient types all colleges possess: he had a gammy leg and a skin disease and a collection of harpsichords in his rooms.

    A Room of One’s Own « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • If I had the money sure, I would go buy the whole shammy gammy outfit but I don't.

    Scent Elimination Debate 2009

  • If I had the money sure, I would go buy the whole shammy gammy outfit but I don't.

    Scent Elimination Debate 2009

  • It was possibly as bad an all-round fielding side as has taken the field for England, notwithstanding the best wicketkeeper the game has seen; from A for Amiss, whose love of fielding was in inverse proportion to that for batting, to W for Willis, Willey – he of the gammy knee – and Woolmer, whom Keith Fletcher referred to as the Porky Fat Wobbler.

    How the finer arts of fielding caught on with England | Mike Selvey 2011

  • Canny souls with gammy legs or some other disability, would, for up to £150 a time, assume the identity of someone who had received call-up papers and attend the medical on their behalf, ensuring that they were excused service.

    London in the blitz: How crime flourished under cover of the blackout 2010

  • "A very light touch on the red button switches it all off," she says, which is a blessing for her, because jumping in and out of the armchair with her gammy ankle to switch over every time the Face came on was wearing her out.

    I can't look at our new Leader's face 2010

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