Noun: gammon
| Singular | gammon |
| Plural | gammons |
Sample Sentences
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[T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust. [1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 40:]
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I bake a piece of gammon that will be served both hot and, later, as cold cuts. [2022 October 17, Nigel Slater, “Smoked haddock, baked gammon: Nigel Slater’s winter recipes that make the most of your oven”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
Nouns inflected like gammon
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: French Nouns '
jambon', Ancient Greek Nouns '
καμπή'.
Verbs referencing "gammon"
Spanish Nouns
jamón.