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Gammon   /gˈæmən/   Listen
Gammon

noun
1.
Meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked).  Synonyms: ham, jambon.
2.
Hind portion of a side of bacon.





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"Gammon" Quotes from Famous Books



... dont want to give myself any virtuous airs, or to boast of behaving better than your sister. I know the world; and I know that she will marry Ned just as much because she thinks it right as because she cant help herself. But dont you try to make me swallow any gammon about my disgracing you and so forth. I intend to stay as I am. I can respect myself; and I dont care whether you or your family respect me or not. If you dont approve of me, why! nobody asks you to associate with me. If you want society, ...
— The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage • George Bernard Shaw
... have extended about as far as Point Gammon, where, being "near the land," their Indian guide left them, as stated ...
— Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 2 • Samuel de Champlain
... to business. PUNCHINELLO is not going to define his position here. He refrains from boring his readers with prolix gammon about his foreign and domestic relations. He will content himself (and readers, he hopes) by briefly mentioning that he has foreign and domestic relations in every part of the habitable globe, and that they each and all furnish him with correspondence of the most reliable and ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 1, Saturday, April 2, 1870 • Various
... Nobody can really tell who St. George was, and nobody will ever be able to do so. Gibbon fancies he was at one time an unscrupulous bacon dealer, and that he finally did considerable business in religious gammon. Butler, the Romish historian, thinks he was martyred by Diocletian for telling that amiable being a little of his mind; ancient fabulists make it out that be killed a dragon, saved a fair virgin's life, and then did something better than either—married her; medieval men, with a knightly turn ...
— Our Churches and Chapels • Atticus
... "Oh, gammon! Why not tell me at once that you are a winkle stall-keeper and be done with it? You can't tell a fish that another fish is a turnip—at least you can't and expect him to believe it. Own up, old chap. I know a man ...
— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces • Thomas W. Hanshew


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