"Gammoning" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and so that natural no one could have picked him out from them. He dressed like them, talked like them, and never let slip a word except about shooting in England, hunting in America and India, besides gammoning to be as green about all Australian ways as if he'd never seen a gum tree before. They took up a claim, and bought a tent. Then they got a wages-man to help them, and all four used to work like niggers. ...
— Robbery Under Arms • Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood
... he, "so I may e'en go on deck and tell father that I cannot manage it;" and as he said the latter part of this speech, the undaunted little villain actually laughed at the idea of gammoning his father, as he ...
— The Privateer's-Man - One hundred Years Ago • Frederick Marryat |
