gammer

gam·mer

an old woman, esp. one from the country: now usually humorous

Origin of gammer

altered from godmother

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gammer

noun

Chiefly British

An elderly woman.

Origin of gammer

Probably alteration (influenced by grandmother )of godmother

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Noun

(plural gammers)

(obsolete) An old woman.

Anagrams

gramme

Origin

Reduction of godmother or grandmother.

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Gammer Gurton's Needle is the second extant English comedy, properly so called.
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.
If such is the case, there is reason to think that the composition of Gammer Gurton's Needle should be referred to the earlier period.

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