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gamp
[ gamp ]
noun
British Informal.
- an umbrella.
gamp
/ ɡæ³¾±è /
noun
- informal.an umbrella
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of gamp1
1860–65; after the umbrella of Mrs. Sarah Gamp in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit
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˜yÐÄvlog 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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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.
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In earnest whereof Mrs. Parsley again thumped the floor with her "gamp."
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A "gamp" became a slang word for umbrella in the 19th century.
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Well, there it is as glaring and apparent as Borrow’s big green gamp or De Quincey’s insularity.Â
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Hitting, then, is the weak point of the gamp.
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