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单词 gammon and patter
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gammon and patter
P2. gammon and patter: talk, chatter; spec. the slang or jargon used by a specific group of people, e.g. criminals' cant. Cf. sense A. 2, patter n.1 1. Obsolete.
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1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) Gamon and Patter, Common-place talk of any profession; as the gamon and patter of a horse dealer, sailor, &c.
1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xiv. 135 What's all this gammon and patter about?
1822 Sporting Mag. May 70/1 Our lucubrations are most especially intended for the benefit of those provincials who are not sufficiently awake to the gammon and patter of the long town.
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