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gamp

[ gamp ]

noun

British Informal.
  1. an umbrella.


gamp

/ ɡæ³¾±è /

noun

  1. informal.
    an umbrella
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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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. 

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Hitting, then, is the weak point of the gamp.

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