Talk:gammy
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In the sense of grandmother. Jonathan Webley 11:57, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
- Changed from proper noun to noun. I dug through several dozen pages of search results and only found one in the lower case that I could cite. There are several hundred more to look through, but I'm tired. I frikin wish Google would let you specify the case. Anyways there are plenty of examples of "Gammy" used as a nickname, even incorrectly, arguably, as "my Gammy". Davilla 19:08, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
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Scottish slang. A blowjob. This was added by an IP editor back in 2011. This was apparently derived from an Urban Dictionary entry from 2004, the only relevant result I could find that is not Wiktionary or a mirror of it (Wordnik, for example, reflects Wiktionary content). We obviously can't use Urban Dictionary's user-generated content as verification for an entry. I have removed this definition from gammy for now, but if this sense can be verified, anyone can feel free to add it back, with citations. Inner Focus (talk) 22:35, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
- This is a real thing, I heard the variant form 'gam' in the phrase 'give me a gam' in the film 'Filth', an adaption of the Irvine Welsh book, there are some hits on Twitter since at least this 2009 tweet[1], also see this 2010 tweet[2] and this 2011 tweet[3]. It's even a verb here[4]. I'll recreate it but I can't say I approve of the out of process deletion. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 22:59, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
- Cited. As far as an etymology is concerned, gam originally meant 'tooth' in Scots but came to refer to various parts of the lower face through conflation with gum and it surely came to refer to an act of fellatio as an extension of that. gam apparently occasionally gets turned into a verb (see Citations:gam) and the noun was also changed to gammy by some speakers (see Citations:gammy). The DSL explains some of this process here[5] Overlordnat1 (talk) 02:10, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
- Well, the cites are from Twitter so would need to be voted. Plus the first one looks like Scots. This, that and the other (talk) 07:52, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
- Moved to Scots. RFV-resolved. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 09:28, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
- Well, the cites are from Twitter so would need to be voted. Plus the first one looks like Scots. This, that and the other (talk) 07:52, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
- Cited. As far as an etymology is concerned, gam originally meant 'tooth' in Scots but came to refer to various parts of the lower face through conflation with gum and it surely came to refer to an act of fellatio as an extension of that. gam apparently occasionally gets turned into a verb (see Citations:gam) and the noun was also changed to gammy by some speakers (see Citations:gammy). The DSL explains some of this process here[5] Overlordnat1 (talk) 02:10, 28 June 2023 (UTC)