Other forms: gammons
Gammon is cured meat from the hind leg of a pig. A gammon steak, boil the gammon, gammon and pineapple.
It is the same cut as ham but cured on the carcass and sold raw to be cooked, where ham is cured and ready. Gammon has also become a British political insult, from the colour of an angry face.
1noungammonCured meat from the hind leg of a pig.
“We had gammon with pineapple and chips for Sunday dinner.”
gammon is a meat.
Old French gambon comes from gambe, a leg, the same root as the modern French word for ham.
Ancient Greek
καμπή
Latin
gamba
Old French
gambon
Middle English
*gammon
English, today
gammon
Built from
From Middle English gammon, gambon, from Old French gambon (compare modern French jambon (“ham”)), from gambe (“leg”), from Latin gamba, from Ancient Greek καμπή. a doublet of jambon and jamon.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA