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gamp
[ gamp ]
noun
, British Informal.
- an umbrella.
gamp
/ ɡæmp /
noun
- informal.an umbrella
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gamp1
1860–65; after the umbrella of Mrs. Sarah Gamp in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gamp1
C19: after Mrs Sarah Gamp, a nurse in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit, who carried a faded cotton umbrella
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Example Sentences
Martin Chuzzlewit, the Dickens novel in which Mrs. Gamp appears, is not my favorite of his books by any means.
From 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.
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Now when I go, I take my husband's "storm" gamp and sit in a corner, hiding behind it.
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Among all his humorous creations, Mrs. Gamp is perhaps the most intensely original and the most thoroughly individualised.
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Mrs. Gamp herself, when roused, is under the same embarrassing misapprehension.
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Here it is that Mrs. Gamp's distinctive characteristics begin to assert themselves conspicuously.
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