Gammy

/ˈɡæmi/ · adjective

Meaning

Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs)..

Definitions by Sense

1. Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs).
2. (slang, obsolete) Fake; counterfeit.
3. (slang, obsolete) Bad; unfavourable.
4. (colloquial) Grandmother.

Example Sentences

I have got a gammy leg, and can't walk far.

In spring 2009, three years after he suffered a stroke that spared him intellectually but left him with a cane and a gammy right side, Conway delivered a six-part lecture series on his latest brainchild: The Free Will Theorem, devised with his Princeton colleague Simon Kochen.

"With that gammy leg I wouldn't risk a bet against the chance of another accident on those stairs."

I'm not exactly spectacular at the moment with a gammy knee that sometimes lets me down and hair that looks as if it's been cut with a knife and fork.

A little bit of real lace would be fixed on this as in process of making, and a lot of "gammy" stuff, imitation lace, would be carried with it.

Had our beloved gammy lost it?

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Word Forms

• gammier
• gammiest
• gammie
• gammies

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