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▪ I. gam, n.1 Sc.|gam|
[Perh. onomatopœic. Cf. gamp v.
The formation may have been partly suggested by some of the many words with initial ga- that refer to prominent or ugly teeth; cf. gabbed, gag-tooth, gang-tooth, gap-tooth, gat-tooth, etc. An adj. ‘gam, overlapping and twisted, applied only to the teeth’ cited from a Banff Glossary (Jam. 1880), may perh. have arisen from the attrib. use of the n. Etymological connexion with gum (Sc. obs. gume, OE. góma) seems to be phonologically impossible.]
1. In pl. Large teeth, tusks.
a1500Rowlis Cursing 18 He that saulis saifis and dammis Beteich the devill thair guttis and gammis. 1508Kennedie Flyting w. Dunbar 363 Thou wald be fayn to gnaw, lad, with thy gammis..banis behynd doggis bakkis. 1513Douglas æneis v. viii. 98 Scheddis of bluid furth spittand throw his lippis, With bludy gammis [L. dentes]. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 415 With glowrand ene and girnand gammis greit. 1825–80Jamieson s.v., In Ang[us]..they say greit gams, large teeth; sometimes, gams o' teeth.
2. (Perh. only arch. and confounded with gum.) The mouth.
1724Ramsay Evergreen II. 20 (altered from Dunbar) Quod scho, my Clip, my unspaynd Lam [Dunb. gyane], With Mither's Milk ȝit in your Gam [Dunb. mychane]. 1840Bauld Braxy Tam in Whistle-Binkie (Scot. Songs) (1890) I. 239 Wi' a black bushy beard and a liquory gam.
▪ II. gam, n.2 Naut.|gæm|
[Perh. a dial. var. of game n., or adopted from some Scandinavian equivalent; cf. Da. gammen, Sw. gamman, Icel. gaman, sport, amusement, pleasure; but the Da. and Sw. dicts. do not record any technical sense as current among whalers.]
a. A herd or school of whales.
b. A social meeting of whalers at sea.
1850Scoresby Whaleman's Adv. xiii. (1859) 184 Gam is the word by which they designate the meeting, exchanging visits, and keeping company of two or more whale ships, or a sociable family of whales. 1851H. Melville Whale II. xi. 75 What does the whaler do when she meets another whaler in any sort of decent weather? She has a gam.
▪ III. gam, n.3 slang.|gæm|
[Prob. the same as gamb.]
A leg.
1781G. Parker Life's Painter 143 If a man has bow legs, he has queer gams, gams being cant for legs. 1790By-stander 391 It was not a fortnight before my gam came round again as well as ever. 1823New Monthly Mag. VIII. 497, I was 'ware of him, and whipping out my gam, clutched him by shoulder and brisket. 1887Henley Villon's Gd. Nt. iii, At you I merely lift my gam.
Comb.1781G. Parker Life's Painter 173 Stockings—Gam-cases.
▪ IV. gam, n.4 Brit. slang.
Brit. |gæm|, U.S. |gæm|
[‹ gam v.2]
An act of fellatio.
P. Beale Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 8, 1984) 443/2 notes a remembered usage from 1954.
1977J. T. Shipley In Praise of Eng. 187 He's fond of a plate (of ham) rhymes with gam, short for gamahuche, a French term for fellatio. 1993I. Welsh Trainspotting (1994) 233 Tony n Caroline came in n caught us giein the boy a gam. It wis a total embarrassment. Giein a guy whae wis wearin a condom a blow-job. 2001K. Sampson Outlaws (2002) 217 She comes up behind us, puts her arms around us and slides her hand down my trackies and starts giving us a gam.
▪ V. gam, v.|gæm|
[Cf. gam n.2]
1. intr. Of whales: To gather together and form a ‘gam’ or school.
1889in Century Dict.
2. trans. Of whalers: To meet and hold intercourse with (the crew of another ship). Also intr.
1890Century Mag., Aug. XL. 510/2 To ‘gam’ means to gossip. The word occurs again and again in the log-books of the old whalers. 1892N. York Sun 1 May 1/2 (Funk), On Sept. 20 we met the bark Atlantic..and ‘gammed’ her.
3. U.S. slang. ‘To engage in social intercourse; to make a call; to have a chat’ (Farmer).
Hence ˈgamming vbl. n.
1851H. Melville Whale liii. 268 There is another little item about Gamming which must not be forgotten here. 1890Century Mag., Aug. XL. 511/1 Gamming is indeed a relic of one of the most romantic, and perhaps pathetic, phases of the whaler's life.
▪ VI. gam
obs. and dial. f. game; var. gamme.
▪ VII. gam, v.2 slang (chiefly Brit.).
Brit. |gæm|, U.S. |gæm|
[Shortened ‹gamahuche v. Compare gam n.4]
trans. To perform fellatio on (a man).
1973T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow i. 35 Knowing Bloat, perhaps that's what it is, young lady gamming well-set-up young man. 1993J. Meades Pompey (1994) 33 The day before he reported to Woolwich he had strapped her to her parents' bed with his Sam Browne and, while she gammed him, talked of the opportunities for converting belligerent explosives into fireworks that must exist in Germany. 1998I. Rankin Hanging Garden (1999) vi. 78 She's on her knees gamming some fat bloke. |