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gammy

[ UK /ɡˈæmi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (British informal) sore or lame
    a gammy foot

How To Use gammy In A Sentence

  • The captain has the respect of his players and he found the first half of the season hugely enjoyable but his gammy knee has put a bit of a dampener on things.
  • The kid with the gammy leg doesn't die, and the old man becomes like a second father to him.
  • I imagine that he has one blue eye, one green, and a gammy leg.
  • I dragged my gammy foot behind me down to where she was standing and stopped inches away from her.
  • It is an action shot on match days, pacing the sideline, up and down, like one of those tram-lined pitchside cameras so beloved of Sky Sports, the gammy knees of his playing days no hindrance to his ceaseless movement.
  • Interestingly, cam has, in addition, been posited as the source of the dialectal game or gammy, meaning ` lame. ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2
  • The captain has the respect of his players and he found the first half of the season hugely enjoyable but his gammy knee has put a bit of a dampener on things.
  • Her gammy hip hadn't been a real problem on this holiday.
  • If I had the money sure, I would go buy the whole shammy gammy outfit but I don't. Scent Elimination Debate
  • It was possibly as bad an all-round fielding side as has taken the field for England, notwithstanding the best wicketkeeper the game has seen; from A for Amiss, whose love of fielding was in inverse proportion to that for batting, to W for Willis, Willey – he of the gammy knee – and Woolmer, whom Keith Fletcher referred to as the Porky Fat Wobbler. How the finer arts of fielding caught on with England | Mike Selvey
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