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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She went off, still flourishing her sturdy gamp, and reiterating her determination to have the law on the infamous Missing Link.
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
From Dickens's famous character Mrs. Gamp in "Martin Chuzzlewit," who always carried a bulgy umbrella, we get the word gamp, rather a vulgar name for "umbrella."
From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)
“Likely I’m going to ask you after serving my gamp like that!”
From Will of the Mill by Fenn, George Manville
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
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