gammon
ga muhn
- n meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
- n hind portion of a side of bacon
- A Hampshire farmer at his wedding dinner fed his guests from his own land on beef, fowls, a gammon of bacon and a sucking pig, a green goose, river-fish, plum pudding, apple-pie .
- Before dispatching this letter I'll try to dig up an old snapshot showing two of my former mates playing gammon.
- But Old Cock talks enough for twohis language flows like pig's ear in a boozer on Saturday night and is rich as hot gammon.