Crossword-Solution: GAMMER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gammer | n. | An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GAMMER | anagram | GRAMME |
We have 7 clues for the answer “GAMMER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "___ Gurton's Needle" | 1 answer |
| An old countrywoman. | 1 answer |
| RUSTIC name for old woman | 1 answer |
| old dutch | 1 answer |
| Old woman. | 9 answers |
| Gaffer | 14 answers |
| DAME | 40 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GAMMER (5)
Without in the least expecting an answer, the Prince asked it: ‘And where may you be going, Gammer Grasshopper?’ ‘Where are you going yourself, Gaffer Cricket?’ replied the Grasshopper.
Next day Jocell fell sick with vomitings, and bleeding, and breaking out of boils, and in three days he lay dead; and Gammer Harden fell sick and died likewise.
And I wonder at you, Dominie Doctor, to propose such a piece of service for little Dickie.” “Nay, my good Gammer Sludge,” answered the preceptor, “Ricardus shall go but to the top of the hill, and indicate with his digit to the stranger the dwelling of Wayland Smith.
The rats wished to pass before the mice, and serious quarrels about precedence nearly spoiled everything; but a big rat gave his arm to a mouse, and the gaffer rats and gammer mice being paired off in the same way, all were soon seated on their rumps, tails in air, muzzles stretched, whiskers stiff, and their eyes brilliant as those of a falcon.
Puck describes one of his wanton pranks: "And sometimes I lurk in a gossip's bowl, In very likeness of a roasted crab, And when she drinks against her lips I bob:" I love no roast, says John Still, in "Gammer Gurton's Needle," "I love no rost, but a nut-browne torte, And a crab layde in the fyre; A lytle bread shall do me stead, Much bread I not desire." In the bibulous days of Shakespeare, the peg tankard, a species of wassail or wish-health bowl, was still in use.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1955–1983).