Gamon vs. Gammon — What's the Difference?

Gamon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Dinah Gamon, English silversmith Hannibal Gamon (c.

Ham which has been cured or smoked like bacon

A victory in backgammon (carrying a double score) in which the winner removes all their pieces before the loser has removed any.

Nonsense; rubbish

Defeat (an opponent) with a gammon.

Hoax or deceive (someone)

A victory in backgammon reached before the loser has succeeded in removing a single piece.

Misleading or nonsensical talk; humbug.

Gammon See Shelta.

A cured or smoked ham.

The lower part of a side of bacon.

To defeat in backgammon by scoring a gammon.

To deceive or mislead

To talk misleadingly or deceptively.

To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a ship.

A cut of quick-cured pork leg.

(backgammon) A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone.

(rare) Backgammon (the game itself).

(nautical) A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning).

(dated) Chatter, ridiculous nonsense.

A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively.

To cure bacon by salting.

(backgammon) To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone).

To lash with ropes (on a ship).

To deceive; to lie plausibly to.

The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.

Backgammon.

A victory in the game of backgammon in which one player gammons another, i. e., the winner bears off all of his pieces before his opponent bears off any pieces; as, he won the match with three gammons in a row.

An imposition or hoax; humbug.

To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.

To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person. In certain variants of the game one who gammons an opponent scores twice the normal value of the game.

To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.

To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.

Meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)

Hind portion of a side of bacon