gammy

IPA: gˈæmi

noun

  • (colloquial) Grandmother.

adjective

  • Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs).
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Examples of "gammy" in Sentences

  • If I had the money sure, I would go buy the whole shammy gammy outfit but I don't.
  • He has a "gammy" hand and needs to wear a calliper on his right leg and uses a walking stick.
  • Interestingly, cam has, in addition, been posited as the source of the dialectal game or gammy, meaning ` lame. '
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • "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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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