English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes with: -æm

Etymology 1

From gamb. Alternative etymologies suggest that it may be of Polari origin possibly from .

Noun

1. A person's leg.

Etymology 2

Noun

1. A collective noun used to refer to a group of whales; A pod.
   • 1862, Henry Theodore Cheever, The Whalemen's Adventures in the Southern Ocean, Darton & Hodge, page 116.

     Upon getting into a "gam" of whales, this boat, together with that of one of the mates, pulled for a single whale that was seen at a distance from the others, and succeeded in getting square up to their victim unperceived.

2. In the context of "by extension": A social gathering of whalers or other ships.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, Harper and Brothers, chapter 53.

     But what is a Gam? You might wear out your index-finger running up and down the columns of dictionaries, and never find the word, Dr. Johnson never attained to that erudition; Noah Webster’s ark does not hold it. Nevertheless, this same expressive word has now for many years been in constant use among some fifteen thousand true born Yankees. Certainly, it needs a definition, and should be incorporated into the Lexicon. With that view, let me learnedly define it. Gam. NOUN—A social meeting of two (or more) Whaleships, generally on a cruising-ground; when, after exchanging hails, they exchange visits by boats’ crews, the two captains remaining, for the time, on board of one ship, and the two chief mates on the other.

Translations

Verb

1. To make a social visit on another ship at sea.

Etymology 3

From the gám.

Noun

1. alternative spelling of gom A silly, foolish person.

References

Online Etymology Dictionary

Bandjalang

Noun

infl bdy

1. qualifier Wahlubal hair of the head

Synonyms

• guhndun

Swedish

Noun

1. a vulture or condor; scavenging birds living in Africa, Europe, Asia and America
2. someone who takes advantage of a demise or a bankruptcy, usually in a legal, but, for the affected people, offensive way

   Innan konkurshandlingarna ens var undertecknade samlades gamarna i verkstaden för att se vad som var värt att sälja vidare

Turkish

Noun

1. sorrow

See also

• envâ-ı gam
• kaygılar

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡæm/|lang=vi

Noun

1. gram (unit of mass)

Gam may be:

• Gam, Cornwall, a town in southwestern England
• Gam (island), an island of Indonesia
• Dafydd Gam
• The Free Aceh Movement (in Indonesian: Gerakan Aceh Merdeka)
• GAM (group), a Japanese pop group
• The title of a villages elected tribal chief among the Himalayan Adi people

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