Citations:gam

English citations of gam

group of whales or porpoises

• 1972, The Gulf of Mexico →ISBN, page 95:

  I shall be forever grateful that I finally flew the length of the coast at low level with an amiable pilot who circled every flock of geese and gam of porpoises that caught my eye.

• 1976, Sportfishing for Sharks, page 259:

  The destruction that a gam of porpoises or pilot whales can wreak is impressive. As for the actual killing of the animals, it can be done quickly with a high-powered rifle.

• 2009, Howard E. Adkins, The Dash of Dr. Todd →ISBN, page 49:

  […] stopping short of the water and delaying casting off as the Ellie Mae took them closer to the gam of whales.

gathering of whalers

• 1851, Henry Theodore Cheever, The whale and his captors, or, The whaleman's adventures:

  […] absent thirty or more months, to have a gam of a day with a fresh competitor just arrived out with all the news from home. Such a gam gives matter of talk and old newspaper reading for a month, and nobody can tell how pleasant it is […]

Scots citations of gam

A blowjob

• 1994, Irvine Welsh, The Acid House: A Soft Touch‎^[1]:

  No bad ride, eh John? Sorry tae huv tae move in thair, mate. One ay these things though, eh? Ah jist nodded. Gies a barry gam though, he sais. I felt like shite. Ma electricity. Ma woman.

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• 2014 May 7, Mark Renton(@SkaggyBaws), Twitter‎^[2]:

  That Monica Lewinsky bird needs tae understand that naebody gies a fuck aboot her gieing the Clinton felly the gam. Fuckin ancient history.

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• 2016 November 30, anonymous author, “Carols Sauna”, in vymaps.com‎^[3]:

  I had a great experience in carols sauna. I found the ladies to be right to my taste thanks for my special girl who always wipes me clean. Next time. Barry gam

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• 1869, Edwin Waugh, Lancashire Sketches, page 25:

  And then, turning to me, he said, "Nea, then, measter, yo'n yer some gam, if yor spare' t."

To fellate

• 2010 October 9, Francis Begbie(@FrancisFBegbie), Twitter‎^[4]:

  @Clarrak0d7t1 Show us a pic ay yer gash then! C'moan! Ah bet yer a fuckin dug. No that ah gie a fuck when yir gammin me likes.

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