Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - gammon
Gammon
gammon
1. n. & v. --n. 1 the bottom piece of a flitch of bacon including a hind leg. 2 the ham of a pig cured like bacon. --v.tr. cure (bacon). Etymology: ONF gambon f. gambe leg: cf. JAMB 2. n. & v. --n. a kind of victory scoring two games at backgammon. --v.tr. defeat in this way. Etymology: app. = ME gamen GAME(1) 3. n. & v. colloq. --n. humbug, deception. --v. 1 intr. a talk speciously. b pretend. 2 tr. hoax, deceive. Etymology: 18th c.: orig. uncert.
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I. noun see: gambit Date: 15th century ham 2, 2. chiefly British a side of bacon, the lower end of a side of bacon, II. noun Etymology: perhaps alteration of Middle English gamen game Date: circa 1734 back~, the winning of a back~ game before the loser removes any men from the board, III. transitive verb Date: 1735 to beat by scoring a ~, IV. verb Date: 1789 intransitive verb to talk ~, pretend, feign, transitive verb deceive, fool, V. noun Etymology: perhaps from argot to give (someone) ~ to distract a victim during a robbery Date: 1805 talk intended to deceive ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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