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Gammon is meat from a pig’s back leg that has been packed with salt (and often a little smoke) so it keeps. In British shops this is the everyday word: you buy a gammon joint or a gammon steak and cook it at home.
Gammongammon is meat from a pig’s back leg是豬後腿的肉 that has been packed with salt (and often a little smoke) so it keeps用鹽醃過(通常還會加一點煙燻)以便保存。 In British shops this is the everyday word在英國的店裡這是日常用語: you buy a gammon joint or a gammon steak你會買一塊gammon joint(帶骨大塊肉)或gammon steak(肉排) and cook it at home回家自己煮。
Once it is cooked, many people simply call it ham. The two are close cousins on the plate — same cut of the animal — but the shop distinction is real: ham is often already cooked or ready to eat; gammon is still waiting for the pan or the oven.
Once it is cooked一旦煮熟了, many people simply call it ham很多人就直接叫它ham(火腿)。 The two are close cousins on the plate這兩者在餐盤上算是近親 — same cut of the animal是同一個部位的肉 — but the shop distinction is real但在店裡的區分是真實存在的: ham is often already cooked or ready to eatham通常已經煮熟或可以直接吃; gammon is still waiting for the pan or the ovengammon則還等著下鍋或進烤箱。
You will hear gammon all the time in the UK and Ireland; in American English people almost always say ham instead. It is ordinary food language, a little old-fashioned, Sunday-lunch talk rather than street slang.
You will hear gammon all the time in the UK and Ireland在英國和愛爾蘭你會一直聽到gammon這個字; in American English people almost always say ham instead美式英語則幾乎都改說ham。 It is ordinary food language這是普通的食物用語, a little old-fashioned有點老派, Sunday-lunch talk rather than street slang是星期天午餐會用的說法,不是街頭俚語。
(British newspapers later borrowed the pink colour of the meat as a rude joke for a certain kind of angry person. That is a nickname, not this food sense.)
(British newspapers later borrowed the pink colour of the meat英國報紙後來借用這種肉的粉紅色 as a rude joke for a certain kind of angry person拿來嘲諷某一種容易發怒的人 That is a nickname那是一個綽號, not this food sense.)不是這裡講的食物意思)
組成From Middle English gammon, gambon, from Old French gambon (today’s French jambon, “ham”), from gambe (“leg”), from Late Latin gamba, from Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ). The name is really “leg meat”. Doublet of jambon and jamón.
原始詞典資料14 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Gammonname
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the Shelta or Cant language of the Irish Travelling Community.
gammonnoun詞源 1/ˈɡæmən/
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A cut of quick-cured pork leg.
- [T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust.
- I bake a piece of gammon that will be served both hot and, later, as cold cuts.
gammonverb詞源 1/ˈɡæmən/
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To cure bacon by salting.
gammonverb詞源 2/ˈɡæmən/
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dialectalTo joke, kid around, play.
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backgammongamesTo beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone).
gammonnoun詞源 2/ˈɡæmən/
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dialectalA joke, trick; play, sport, merriment.
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backgammongamesA victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone.
- Toward the end of the game Roger had not borne off a single stone belonging to Roseanna, and she scored a gammon. She could not hide the triumph in her eyes. “Perhaps you will play a better game if we play for something closer to your heart,” she suggested.
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rareBackgammon (the game itself).
- We started about 7:00 drinking beers and playing gammon. Then after getting a little “loose” we went to a girls dorm.
gammonnoun詞源 3/ˈɡæmən/
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nauticaltransportA rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning).
gammonverb詞源 3/ˈɡæmən/
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To lash with ropes (on a ship).
- “No, by thunder !” he cried, “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.”
gammonnoun詞源 4/ˈɡæmən/
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datedChatter, ridiculous nonsense.
- Some people maintains^([sic]) that an Englishman's house is his castle. That's gammon.
- “Gammon, Pen—go on,” Foker said.
gammonverb詞源 4/ˈɡæmən/
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datedTo deceive; to lie plausibly to.
- And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.
- This blackfulla's driving a car. Copper stops 'im, says, “Did you know you were speeding?” Blackfulla says, “No.” His Missus goes, “Oh yeah you did, eh.” Cop says, “Did you know your tail lights aren't working? Guy says, "No". His missus says, "You did an' all, Dont you gammon to them coppers." Guy goes to his Missus, "Shut up!" Copper asks the Missus, "Does he always talk to you like that?" She goes, "Only when he's drunk!"
gammonadj詞源 4/ˈɡæmən/
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Fake, pretend; bullshit.
- I was just being gammon.
- She ripped the fake coins off […] and tried a black lacy veil, which covered Kerry's forehead, mouth and chin, rendering her mysterious. ‘I look like a Muslim,’ Kerry said doubtfully. […] It was better than the gammon coins though, so she left it.
gammonnoun詞源 5/ˈɡæmən/
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derogatoryA middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively.
- Yeah, let the bitch drown / Got the gammons all feeling sick now / Great Britannia's lost all hope, she's broke
- I was expecting the Guardian to portray me as an old gammon and pair me up with some radical with coloured hair. Then she walked through the door with blue hair, which was rather amusing!
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。