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gammy adjective [ ˈɡami ]

• (of part of a person's body, especially the leg) unable to function normally because of injury or chronic pain.
• "he had a gammy leg, it had steel in it or something"
Origin: mid 19th century (in the sense ‘bad, false’): dialect form of game2.


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