Noun: gam
Sample Sentences
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Make the salesclerk blush by flashing some gam and asking him to mix a bucket in your flesh tone. [2010, Home Swell Home: Designing Your Dream Pad, →ISBN, page 19:]
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The women's-liberation movement of the late sixties and the seventies – the so-called second wave of feminism – introduced Americans to the notion that their mothers and sisters and daughters ought not to be "objectified": that there was something wrong with reducing female people to boobs, gams, and beaver. [2012 September 10, Ariel Levy, “The Space In Between”, in The New Yorker:]
Nouns inflected like gam
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Italian gamba (“leg”). Doublet of gamb, gamba, jamb, and jambe. Compare gammon and ham. See: Italian Nouns '
gamba'.