gammy

Definition

Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs).

Etymology

Origin obscure and uncertain. Possibly from the English dialectal (North Midlands) adjective game (“lame”), Welsh cam (“crooked”), or from Irish cam (“bent”), by way of Shelta. Compare also Old Occitan gambi (“lame, limping”), related to Old Occitan gamba (“leg”) (see also French jambe (“leg”), English gam (“leg”)).

Example Sentences

• "I have got a gammy leg, and can't walk far."
• ""With that gammy leg I wouldn't risk a bet against the chance of another accident on those stairs.""
• "In spring 2009, three years after he suffered a stroke that spared him intellectually but left him with a cane and a gammy right side, Conway delivered a six-part lecture series on his latest brainchild: The Free Will Theorem, devised with his Princeton colleague Simon Kochen."