gamp
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gamp
1860–65; after the umbrella of Mrs. Sarah Gamp in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit
Example Sentences
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Ach! it vos so pad I haf to get oudt right avay, und come pack to der gamp.
From Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day by Douglas, Alan
Ah! take and hide me in some hollow lair, Red hills of Var! and ye umbrella-pines, Cover me like a gamp!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
"Mark me, I'll find him, and when I do—" The sweep of her bulky gamp nearly knocked Bonypart off his platform.
From The Missing Link by Dyson, Edward
"You don't think I'd do a thing like that on purpose!" he said, and saw for the first time that the man with the gamp was Joses.
From Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs by Ollivant, Alfred
In earnest whereof Mrs. Parsley again thumped the floor with her "gamp."
From A Woman's Burden by Hume, Fergus
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