gamp
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gamp
1860–65; after the umbrella of Mrs. Sarah Gamp in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit
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It was quite a good disguise; and a pair of black cotton gloves, two sizes too large, and a sort of lumpy gamp umbrella helped to suggest the character I had in my mind.
From The Man Without a Memory by Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) Marchmont
In earnest whereof Mrs. Parsley again thumped the floor with her "gamp."
From A Woman's Burden by Fergus Hume
Some English "fellah" Has left his rotten gamp, and carried off My own Umbrella!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 30, 1892 by Various
Look here, how did you manage to get my gamp up yonder?”
From Will of the Mill by George Manville Fenn
Under the Old Umbrella, Beneath the leaking gamp, Wrapped up in woolly phrases We battle with the damp.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 8, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman
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