gam·mon /ˈgæmən/
醃豬後腿,胡說(vt.)醃,欺騙(vi.)胡說,作假
Gam·mon v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gammoned p. pr. & vb. n. Gammoning.] To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
Gam·mon n.
1. Backgammon.
3. An imposition or hoax; humbug. [Colloq.]
Gam·mon, v. t.
1. 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. In certain variants of the game one who gammons an opponent scores twice the normal value of the game.
2. To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. [Colloq.]
Gam·mon, v. t. Naut. To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
◄ ►
Gam·mon n. The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
gammon
n 1: meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) [syn: ham,
jambon]
2: hind portion of a side of bacon