gammer
English edit
Etymology edit
Reduction of godmother or grandmother.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gammer (plural gammers)
- (obsolete) An old woman.
- 1845, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides, Book the Fourth, Stanza IX:
- If thou return not, Gammer o'er her pail
Will sing in sorrow, 'neath the brinded cow,
And Gaffer sigh over his nut-brown ale […]
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See also edit
- Gammer Gurton's Needle, a 16th-century English comedy.