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▪ I. gammer, n.|ˈgæmə(r)|
Also 6–8 gammar, 5 (once) gandmer.
[See gaffer. The spelling gandmer in 1589 shows that the word was then regarded as a corruption of grandmother.]
A rustic title for an old woman, corresponding to gaffer for a man.
1575J. Still (title), A Ryght Pithy, Pleasaunt and merie Comedie: Intytuled Gammer Gurtons Nedle. Ibid. i. iii, My Gammer is so out of course, and frantyke all at ones. 1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. 1 Now gandmer are not these your examples moralized? 1614B. Jonson Barth. Fair v. vi, Hee has stolne gammar Vrsla's panne. 1634Heywood & Brome Lanc. Witches ii. H.'s Wks. 1874 IV. 199 But gammer are not you a Witch? 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) III. 18 Our honest old Gammer is laid in the Clay. 1742Fielding J. Andrews iv. xv, The pedlar..listened with the utmost attention to gammer Andrews's story. c1815Houlston's Juvenile Tracts, Cork Jacket 1, ‘I will tell you a tale’ said old Gammer Green. 1833Tennyson Goose ix, Then yelp'd the cur, and yawl'd the cat; Ran Gaffer, stumbled Gammer. a1845Hood Tale Trumpet viii, There never was such a deaf old Gammer! 1866Blackmore Cradock Nowell xv, The rector having learned every gammer's alloverishness and every gaffer's rheumatics.
▪ II. gammer, v. dial.|ˈgæmə(r)|
[Perh. f. prec. n.; cf. gossip, F. commérage, etc.]
intr. To idle.
1788W. Marshall Yorksh. II. 331 To Gammer, to idle. 1876Whitby Gloss. s.v., ‘Gying gammering about’, sauntering and tattling all over. |