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pamp

English

Etymology

From Middle English pampen, from Middle Low German pampen (to pamper oneself, live luxuriously), from Old Saxon *pamp?n, from Proto-Germanic *pamp?n? (to swell), from Proto-Indo-European *bamb- (round object). Cognate with West Frisian pampelje, Dutch pampelen, pamperen (to cram, pamper), German pampfen, bamben, Norwegian pampa (to stuff oneself).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -æmp

Verb

pamp (third-person singular simple present pamps, present participle pamping, simple past and past participle pamped)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To pamper.

Anagrams

  • MAPP

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wamp

English

Etymology

Probably from Massachusett wompi (white).

Noun

wamp (plural wamps)

  1. The common American eider.

References

  • wamp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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