gammy

adjective · nounA2

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

gammiergammiest

Superlative

gammie

1.
Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs).
I have got a gammy leg, and can't walk far.
In spring 2009, three years after he suffered a stroke that spared him intellectually but left him with a cane and a gammy right side, Conway delivered a six-part lecture series on his latest brainchild: The Free Will Theorem, devised with his Princeton colleague Simon Kochen.
Đồng nghĩa: lame
2.
(obsolete, slang)Fake; counterfeit.
3.
(obsolete, slang)Bad; unfavourable.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

gammiesgammie

1.
(colloquial)Grandmother.
Had our beloved gammy lost it?

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

lame

Cùng gốc / liên quan

grammy

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Nguồn gốc từ

Origin obscure and uncertain. Possibly from the English dialectal (North Midlands) adjective game (lame), Welsh cam (crooked), or from Irish cam (bent), by way of -. Compare also gambi, related to gamba leg (see also jambe leg, gam (leg)).