Gammer meaning

găm'ər
An elderly woman.
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An old woman, esp. one from the country.
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(obsolete) An old woman.
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Origin of gammer

  • Probably alteration (influenced by grandmother) of godmother
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Reduction of godmother or grandmother.
    From Wiktionary

Gammer Sentence Examples

  • Gammer Gurton's Needle is the second extant English comedy, properly so called.

  • JOHN STILL (c. 1543-1608), bishop of Bath and Wells, formerly reputed to be the author of Gammer Gurton's Needle, was born about 1543 at Grantham, Lincolnshire.

  • Still, whose reputation as a serious churchman cannot be easily reconciled with the buffoonery of A Ryght Pithy, Pleasaunt and merle Comedie: Intytuled Gammer Gurtons Nedle, was first credited with its authorship by Isaac Reed in his edition (1782) of Baker's Biographia dramatica.

  • Contemporary Puritan writers in the Marprelate tracts allude to Dr John Bridges, dean of Salisbury, author of A Defence of the Government of the Church of England, as the reputed author of Gammer Gurton's Needle, but he obviously could not be properly described as "Mr S."

  • There are reasons to suppose however that the play had been in Colwell's hands some time before it was printed, and it may well be identical with the Dyccon of Bedlam for which he took out a licence in 1562-1563, "Diccon the Bedlem" being the first of the dramatis personae of Gammer Gurton.

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