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gamp
English
Etymology
After Mrs Sarah Gamp, a character who carried a large umbrella in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?amp/
- Rhymes: -æmp
Noun
gamp (plural gamps)
- (Britain, dated) An umbrella.
- 1900, A. W. Pullin, Talks with old English cricketers (page 169)
- It was the last day of the match, and owing to rain it was really unfit to play, but the promoters insisted upon our doing so, to satisfy the spectators, who stood round the ground with their umbrellas up. […] One gentleman sat with his gamp up on some rails near the railway.
- 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1111:
- In his hand he waved – an appropriate symbol of disapprobation – his London gamp meticulously rolled.
- 1900, A. W. Pullin, Talks with old English cricketers (page 169)
Anagrams
- AGMP
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Related to Norwegian Nynorsk gimpe (“twist the upper body”)
Noun
gamp m (definite singular gampen, indefinite plural gamper, definite plural gampene)
- (work) horse
- old horse, nag
- 2017, "Sangen om den siste drage - bok 4" by Anne Olga Vea, Lulu.com ?ISBN [1]
- 2017, "Sangen om den siste drage - bok 4" by Anne Olga Vea, Lulu.com ?ISBN [1]
References
- “gamp” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “gamp” in The Ordnett Dictionary
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Related to gimpe (“twist the upper body”)
Noun
gamp m (definite singular gampen, indefinite plural gampar, definite plural gampane)
- (work) horse
- old horse, nag
References
- “gamp” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Welsh
Noun
gamp
- Soft mutation of camp.
Mutation
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bamp
English
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Short for bampot?”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bæmp/
Noun
bamp (plural bamps)
- (Tyneside, derogatory) An idiotic and ill-mannered person.
Synonyms
- fuckwit
- idiot
- imbecile
- twat
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