- 1瘸的、不靈便的（英式口語，多形容腿或膝蓋隱隱作痛）
If someone has a gammy leg or a gammy knee, that part is , stiff, or painful, and it does not work as it should. People say it in British and Australian English, usually with a small, kindly smile — not as a doctor’s word. You will hear it from older speakers talking about a bad hip, a football knock, or a knee that has never been quite right. It is almost always used of a leg, knee, hip, or sometimes an arm; you do not really say a gammy idea or a gammy day. It is informal, a little old-fashioned, and it can sound gently comic. Do not put it in a formal letter or a science report; limp, sore, or is safer there. It does not mean the person is lazy. It means the body part itself is in a poor state.
組成Origin obscure and uncertain. It may come from the old North Midlands word game (“lame”), from Welsh cam or Irish cam (“bent, crooked”), perhaps by way of Shelta; some also compare Old Occitan gambi (“lame”), related to gamba (“leg”). Treat any one story as a guess.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
gammyadj詞源 1/ˈɡæmi/
- 1
Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs).
- I have got a gammy leg, and can't walk far.
- However, I had been doing a lot of walking and my gammy leg began to give me trouble.
- 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.
- 3
obsoleteslangBad; unfavourable.
gammynoun詞源 2/ˈɡæmi/
- 1
Grandmother.
- Had our beloved gammy lost it?
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