Gamboʹge (2 syl., first g hard, second g soft).

So called from Cambo’dia or Camboja, whence it was first brought.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Galloway (g hard)
Gallowglass
Gallus Numidicus (A)
Galore
Galvanism (g hard)
Galway Jury
Gam
Gama (g hard)
Gamaheu
Gamaliel
Gamboge
Game
Game
Game-leg
Game for a Spree
Game is not worth the Candle (The)
Game’s Afoot (The)
Gamelyn
Gammer (g hard)
Gammer Gurton’s Needle
Gammon (g hard)