gammy

comparative gammier · superlative gammiest · alternative gammie

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

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

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   However, I had been doing a lot of walking and my gammy leg began to give me trouble.

   1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 131

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

   1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 165

   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.

   2005, Siobhan Roberts, John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician, in: The Guardian, July 23rd 2015

   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.

   2009, Abigail Gordon, A Summer Wedding at Willowmere, page 31

   Synonyms: lame

2. obsoleteslangFake; counterfeit.

   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.

   1891, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 270, page 389

3. obsoleteslangBad; unfavourable.

plural gammies · alternative gammie

1. colloquialGrandmother.

   Had our beloved gammy lost it?