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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
gamp From the web:
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coppish
English
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??pi??/, /k??pi??/
Interjection
coppish
- Alternative spelling of capisce
Etymology 2
cop +? -ish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?p??/
Adjective
coppish (comparative more coppish, superlative most coppish)
- (slang) Resembling or characteristic of a police officer.
Etymology 3
From codpiece.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?p??/
Noun
coppish
- (Wales) The fly of a zipper.
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “capiche”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
coppish From the web:
- what coppish means
- what does foppish mean
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