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Gammon is a pejorative term popularised in British political culture since the 2010s. The term refers to the colour of a person's flushed face when expressing strong opinions, which purportedly resembles the type of pork of the same name.[1][2] It is characterised in this context by the Oxford English Dictionary as occurring "in various parasynthetic adjectives referring to particularly reddish or florid complexions".[3] By 2018, the term had become popularised in British political discourse to describe right-wingers and Brexiteers.[1][4]
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- ^ "gammon". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
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