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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"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
Number one swung lourdily her midwife's bag, the other's gamp poked in the beach.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
The one I've got is an old gamp with a stout indiarubber ring to it.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 24, 1917 by Various
Molly had put on her shabbiest hat and oldest jacket; her gloves had some holes in them; her umbrella was rolled up in such a thick, ungainly fashion that it looked like a gamp.
From Light O' the Morning by Meade, L. T.
Hitting, then, is the weak point of the gamp.
From Broad-Sword and Single-Stick With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defence by Headley, Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, Baron
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