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单词 gam
释义

gam1

/ɡam /
noun informal
A leg, especially a woman’s: she slowly and methodically revealed one of those glorious gams...
  • When this chap seated himself, with his long out-stretched legs, I realized that his gams were quite close in proximity, to yours truly.
  • Framed by the bottom seam of his white trunks and the tops of his white socks and boxing slippers, they were the equivalent of her legendary gams.
  • One spread in the first issue reads, ‘She knows how to play up those gorgeous gams and big brown eyes with the latest relaxed and layered styles.’

Origin

Late 18th century: probably a variant of the heraldic term gamb, which denotes a charge representing an animal's leg, from Old Northern French gambe 'leg'.

Rhymes

gam2

/ɡam /
noun
1 rare A school of whales, porpoises, or dolphins: whalers never passed right by a gam of whales
2US dialect A social meeting or informal conversation (originally one among whalers at sea).

Origin

Mid 19th century: origin uncertain; perhaps from dialect gam 'game', or shortened from gammon3.

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