| 释义 |
▪ I. † ˈgammock, n.1 Obs.
[var. cammock.]
The plant Ononis spinosa or Rest-harrow.
1578Lyte Dodoens vi. x. 669 Gammocke or ground Furze. 1605Timme Quersit. i. xiii. 65 The salt of gammock, other⁓wise called rest-harrow, petty whynne, or ground furze.
▪ II. gammock, n.2 dial.|ˈgæmək|
[? f. game n.1 + -ock.]
A game, jest, piece of fun; also (without a or plural) fun, frolic, foolish sport.
1819‘R. Rabelais’ Abeillard & Heloisa 176 'Tis but a fash'nable gammock. 1823‘Jon Bee’ Dict. Turf, Gammocks, running up and down, as in a fair, rolling among the hay, or flaunting at Vauxhall. 1827Examiner 517/2 The gammocks of a set of indiscriminating monument-destroyers. 1841Hartshorne Salop. Antiqua Gloss., Gamock, foolish sport, practical jokes. 1891Sheffield Gloss. Supp. s.v., ‘She's too much gammock about her.’
▪ III. gammock, v.|ˈgæmək|
[f. prec.]
intr. To ‘lark about’, frolic or romp.
1854A. E. Baker Northants. Gloss. s.v., ‘Our John's always going gammocking about.’ 1863Sala Capt. Dangerous I. viii. 225, I was gammocking in a hayfield with another lass. 1886Chester Gloss., Gammock, to play pranks. 1891in Wiltsh. Gloss. |