gammer

English

Etymology

Reduction of godmother or grandmother.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ɡæmə/

Noun

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 […]

Coordinate terms

gaffer

See also

Gammer Gurton's Needle a 16th century English comedy.

Anagrams

-gramme, gramme

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