Brewer's: Cummer

A gammer, gudewife, old woman. A variety of gammer which is grande-mère (our grandmother), as gaffer is grand-père or grandfather. It occurs scores of times in Scott's novels.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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