gamp

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nounBritish Informal.
  1. an umbrella.

Origin of gamp

1
1860–65; after the umbrella of Mrs. Sarah Gamp in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit

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How to use gamp in a sentence

  • Martin Chuzzlewit, the Dickens novel in which Mrs. gamp appears, is not my favorite of his books by any means.

    My Imaginary Literary Friends | Malcolm Jones | February 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • "I fuf-fuf-fuf, fail to see huh-huh-how that applies," said Joe gamp, a lad with a serious impediment in his speech.

    Frank Merriwell's Races | Burt L. Standish
  • Now when I go, I take my husband's "storm" gamp and sit in a corner, hiding behind it.

    In a German Pension | Katherine Mansfield
  • Among all his humorous creations, Mrs. gamp is perhaps the most intensely original and the most thoroughly individualised.

  • Mrs. gamp herself, when roused, is under the same embarrassing misapprehension.

  • Here it is that Mrs. gamp's distinctive characteristics begin to assert themselves conspicuously.

British Dictionary definitions for gamp

gamp

/ (ɡæmp) /


noun
  1. British informal an umbrella

Origin of gamp

1
C19: after Mrs Sarah Gamp, a nurse in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit, who carried a faded cotton umbrella

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