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    * 1.3.1 Coordinate terms
  • 1.4 See also
  • 1.5 Anagrams

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Reduction of godmother or grandmother.

• (UK) IPA(key): /ɡæmə/

gammer (plural gammers)

1. (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 […]

• gaffer
• Gammer Gurton's Needle, a 16th-century English comedy.
• -gramme, gramme

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