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🍖 A cured ham 😡 A ranting person
gammon

gammon

9.9
An insulting slang word for a person who angrily supports conservative, anti-immigrant views
  • noun
  • /ˈɡæmən/
  • Slur
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  • Many on social media called the shouting, anti-immigration speech gammon for its angry, performative tone.

Examples

  • He was dismissed as a typical gammon after making a red-faced rant against coastal migrants.

  • Don't be such a gammon during the debate.

  • The columnist warned that such gammon appeals simplify complex issues to win votes with emotion.

  • Many people consider him a typical gammon.

  • His angry speech about immigration made him sound like a classic gammon, full of performative outrage.

  • After the rally, critics labeled his nationalist remarks as typical gammon rhetoric that lacks substance.

  • Everyone knows he's a gammon who rants about politics loudly but rarely offers real solutions.

Surface Forms

gammon singular
gammon plural

Etymology

Gammon is also modern British slang for an angry, red-faced person or for angry political talk. One popular idea is that this use comes from the meat gammon, because a flushed face can look like cooked pork, so the word now also means that kind of loud, performative speech.