All gammon synonyms
gam·mon
G g verb gammon
- trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- fool — to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.
- dupe — duplicate.
- fleece — the coat of wool that covers a sheep or a similar animal.
- rook — one of two pieces of the same color that may be moved any number of unobstructed squares horizontally or vertically; castle.
- deceive — If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true, usually in order to get some advantage for yourself.
- frame — a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
- gull — a person who is easily deceived or cheated; dupe.
- hoodwink — to deceive or trick.
- con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
- flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
- sting — to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
- bluff — A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
- swindle — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
- bamboozle — To bamboozle someone means to confuse them greatly and often trick them.
- delude — If you delude yourself, you let yourself believe that something is true, even though it is not true.
- chicane — a bridge or whist hand without trumps
- murphy — an Irish or white potato.
- set up — the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- take in — the act of taking.
- take for a ride — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
noun gammon
- flitch — the side of a hog (or, formerly, some other animal) salted and cured: a flitch of bacon.
- groin — Anatomy. the fold or hollow on either side of the front of the body where the thigh joins the abdomen.
- femur — Anatomy. a bone in the human leg extending from the pelvis to the knee, that is the longest, largest, and strongest in the body; thighbone.
- pancetta — Italian pork belly cured with salt, pepper, and other spices and air-dried up to four months, tightly rolled in a cylinder.
- pork — the flesh of hogs used as food.
- ham — the second son of Noah, Gen. 10:1.
- flank — the side of an animal or a person between the ribs and hip.
- hock — the state of being deposited or held as security; pawn: She was forced to put her good jewelry in hock.
- loins — Usually, loins. the part or parts of the human body or of a quadruped animal on either side of the spinal column, between the false ribs and hipbone.
- rasher — vermilion rockfish.
- sowbelly — fat salt pork taken from the belly of a hog.
- groyne — groin (def 4).