gammon
gammon is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
- transitive verb. To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
- noun. Backgammon.
- noun. An imposition or hoax; humbug.
- transitive verb. To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person.
- transitive verb. To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.
- transitive verb. To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
- noun. hind portion of a side of bacon
- noun. meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
Synonyms
Common word forms
gammons, gammoned, gammoner, gammoning
Words from these letters
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