gammer
nounUK /ɡæmə/
Etymology Reduction of godmother or grandmother.
1
Obsolete An old woman.
- If thou return not, Gammer o'er her pail Will sing in sorrow, 'neath the brinded cow, And Gaffer sigh over his nut-brown ale […]1845, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides, Book the Fourth, Stanza IX:
- Related terms
- Gammer Gurton's Needle, a 16th-century English comedy
- Coordinate terms
- gaffer