Noun: gammock
| Singular | gammock |
| Plural | gammocks |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like gammock
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
Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *gammok, from Old English *gamnoc, *gamenoc (“little game, bit of fun”), equivalent to game + -ock (diminutive suffix). Alternatively, perhaps from Old English *gamnecian, *gamenecian (“to frolic”), from Old English gamen (“sport, amusement”) + -(e)cian (frequentative suffix). See: Middle English Nouns '
*gammok', Old English Nouns '
*gamnoc', Old English Nouns '
*gamnecian', Old English Nouns '
gamen'.