gammon

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: gam=mon

CIDE DICTIONARY

gammon, n. [OF. gambon, F. jambon, fr. OF. gambe leg, F. jambe. See Gambol, n., and cf. Ham.].

 The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.  Goldsmith.  [1913 Webster]

gammon, v. t. 

 To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.  [1913 Webster]

gammon, n. [See 2d Game.].

•  Backgammon.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [PJC]
•  An imposition or hoax; humbug.  [1913 Webster]

gammon, v. t. 

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.  Hood.  [1913 Webster]

gammon, v. t. [Etymol. unknown.].

 To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.  Totten.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gammon, n. & v.
--n.
1 the bottom piece of a flitch of bacon including a hind leg.
2 the ham of a pig cured like bacon.
--v.tr. cure (bacon).

gammon, n. & v.
--n. a kind of victory scoring two games at backgammon.
--v.tr. defeat in this way.

gammon, n. & v. colloq.
--n. humbug, deception.
--v.
1 intr. a talk speciously. b pretend.
2 tr. hoax, deceive.

Etymology

18th c.: orig. uncert.

THESAURUS

gammon

absurdity, act, act a part, affect, amphigory, assume, babble, babblement, bacon, balderdash, balls, baloney, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bibble-babble, blabber, blague, blather, bluff, bombast, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, butt, cajole, cheat on, chitterlings, circumvent, claptrap, cochon de lait, conjure, counterfeit, cover up, cracklings, crap, deceive, delude, diddle, dissemble, dissimulate, double-cross, double-talk, drivel, drool, dupe, eyewash, fake, fat back, feign, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flam, flimflam, flitch, flummery, folderol, forestall, four-flush, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, get around, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, gull, ham, ham steak, haslet, headcheese, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, hornswaggle, humbug, humbuggery, jabber, jambon, jambonneau, jargon, jiggery-pokery, juggle, lard, let down, let on, let on like, make a pretense, make as if, make believe, make like, mock, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, pack of nonsense, palaver, picnic ham, pieds de cochon, pig, pigeon, play, play a part, play one false, play possum, playact, pork, porkpie, prate, prattle, pretend, profess, put on, put something over, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, salt pork, sham, side of bacon, simulate, skimble-skamble, small ham, snow, sowbelly, string along, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, suckling pig, take in, trash, trick, trotters, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, two-time, vaporing, waffling

ROGET THESAURUS

gammon

Falsehood

N falsehood, falseness, falsity, falsification, deception, untruth, guile, lying, untruth, guile, lying, misrepresentation, mendacity, perjury, false swearing, forgery, invention, fabrication, subreption, covin, perversion of truth, suppression of truth, suppressio veri, perversion, distortion, false coloring, exaggeration, prevarication, equivocation, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud, suggestio falsi, mystification, simulation, dissimulation, dissembling, deceit, blague, sham, pretense, pretending, malingering, lip homage, lip service, mouth honor, hollowness, mere show, mere outside, duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug, jesuitism, jesuitry, pharisaism, Machiavelism, organized hypocrisy, crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery, charlatanism, charlatanry, gammon, bun-kum, bumcombe, flam, bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery, Judas kiss, perfidy, il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti, unfairness, artfulness, misstatement, false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless, trothless, unfair, uncandid, hollow-hearted, evasive, uningenuous, disingenuous, hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior, forsworn, artificial, contrived, canting, hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical, tartuffish, Machiavelian, double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing, Janus faced, smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, plausible, mealy-mouthed, affected, collusive, collusory, artful, perfidious, spurious, untrue, falsified, covinous, falsely, a la tartufe, with a double tongue, silly, blandae mendacia lingua, falsus in uno falsus in omnibus, I give him joy that's awkward at a lie, la mentira tiene las piernas cortas, O what a goodly outside falsehood hath.

Deception

VB deceive, take in, defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize, abuse, mystify, blind one's eyes, blindfold, hoodwink, throw dust into the eyes, dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle, trick, impose upon, practice upon, play upon, put upon, palm off on, palm upon, foist upon, snatch a verdict, bluff off, bluff, bunko, four flush, gum, spoof, stuff (a ballot box), circumvent, overreach, outreach, out wit, out maneuver, steal a march upon, give the go-by, to leave in the lurch decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle, entrap, intrap, ensnare, nick, springe, set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for, bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime, trapan, trepan, kidnap, let in, hook in, nousle, nousel, blind a trail, enmesh, immesh, shanghai, catch, catch in a trap, sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity, hum, humbug, gammon, stuff up, sell, play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on, balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale, fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand, make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of, trifle with, cajole, flatter, come over, gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon, dissemble, cog, cog the dice, load the dice, stack the deck, live by one's wits, play at hide and seek, obtain money under false pretenses, conjure, juggle, practice chicanery, deacon, play off, palm off, foist off, fob-off, lie, misinform, mislead, betray, be deceived.