GAMMON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gammon mean? 

• GAMMON (noun)
  The noun GAMMON has 2 senses:

1. meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)

2. hind portion of a side of bacon

  Familiarity information: GAMMON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GAMMON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

gammon; ham; jambon

Hypernyms ("gammon" is a kind of...):

cut of pork (cut of meat from a hog or pig)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gammon"):

Virginia ham (a lean hickory-smoked ham; has dark red meat)

prosciutto (Italian salt-cured ham usually sliced paper thin)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hind portion of a side of bacon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("gammon" is a kind of...):

bacon (back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried)

Holonyms ("gammon" is a part of...):

flitch; side of bacon (salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork)

 Context examples 

“It's us must break the treaty when the time comes; and till then I'll gammon that doctor, if I have to ile his boots with brandy.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“What a world of gammon and spinnage it is, though, ain't it!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A whole evening of back-gammon with her father, was felicity to it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)