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gammer

[ gam-er ]

noun

British Archaic.
  1. an old woman.


gammer

/ ˈɡæə /

noun

  1. rare.
    a dialect word for an old woman: now chiefly humorous or contemptuous Compare gaffer
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of gammer1

1565–75; contraction of godmother; gaffer
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of gammer1

C16: probably alteration of godmother or grandmother
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“But I’m worried. I’ve been thinking of Gammer, my wife, and all the children, and their children and their children’s children. They can’t be getting on too well without me.”

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His "Poem Beginning with a Line from Gammer Gurton's Needle" is one of the oldest extant English comic plays.

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A few years later came “Gammer Gurton’s Needle.”

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Straying from ye others, to a remote corner of the meadow, or ever I was aware, I came close upon Gammer Gurney, holding somewhat with much care.

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"How hast fared, of late, Gammer?" quoth I. "Why, well enow for such as I," she made answer; "since I lost ye use o' my right hand, I can nowther spin, nor nurse sick folk, but I pulls rushes, and that brings me a few pence, and I be a good herbalist; and, because I says one or two English prayers and hates ye priests, some folks thinks me a witch."

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