gam

Definitions


[ɡam], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a leg, especially a woman's
(e.g: she slowly and methodically revealed one of those glorious gams)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 18th century: probably a variant of the heraldic term gamb, which denotes a charge representing an animal's leg, from Old Northern French gambe ‘leg’


[ɡam], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a school of whales, porpoises, or dolphins
(e.g: whalers never passed right by a gam of whales)

- a social meeting or informal conversation (originally one among whalers at sea)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 19th century: origin uncertain; perhaps from dialect gam ‘game’, or shortened from gammon




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