Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large baggy umbrella.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large umbrella: said to be so called from Mrs. Gamp, a character in Charles Dickens's novel “Martin Chuzzlewit.”
- To eat greedily; gulp down.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A large umbrella; -- said to allude to Mrs. Gamp's umbrella, in Dickens's “Martin Chuzzlewit.”
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dated An
umbrella .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun colloquial terms for an umbrella
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A fellow dived on him, grabbing his wrist, the squawking woman was belabouring me with her gamp, Joe was hurling his attacker aside ... but by that time I was going through the dining section like Springheeled Jack, sending a table flying as I plunged through the kitchen door.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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The carriages were inside, and as the first wagon followed with its wailing occupants-all but Aphrodite, who was thrashing the tail-board with the remains of her gamp, in a fine berserk fury still-I hurried through the gates.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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The moment, however, a step on the stair was heard, he snatched up hat and gamp, and in two-twos was outside the door of the flat.
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A fellow dived on him, grabbing his wrist, the squawking woman was belabouring me with her gamp, Joe was hurling his attacker aside … but by that time I was going through the dining section like Springheeled Jack, sending a table flying as I plunged through the kitchen door.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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A fellow dived on him, grabbing his wrist, the squawking woman was belabouring me with her gamp, Joe was hurling his attacker aside ... but by that time I was going through the dining section like Springheeled Jack, sending a table flying as I plunged through the kitchen door.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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I hopped aboard an empty Frog ammunition cart going back to Sinho, spied Grant's marker by a covered wagon, and strolled up to report, swinging my gamp.
Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985
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I hopped aboard an empty Frog ammunition cart going back to Sinho, spied Grant's marker by a covered wagon, and strolled up to report, swinging my gamp.
Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985
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The carriages were inside, and as the first wagon followed with its wailing occupants-all but Aphrodite, who was thrashing the tail-board with the remains of her gamp, in a fine berserk fury still-I hurried through the gates.
Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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The carriages were inside, and as the first wagon followed with its wailing occupants-all but Aphrodite, who was thrashing the tail-board with the remains of her gamp, in a fine berserk fury still-I hurried through the gates.
Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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I egged her on, and we got her into the long coat, and adjusted the broad-brimmed bonnet and veil, and I jammed the shoes on her feet, and gloved her, and stuck the gamp in her hand -- and when she managed to stand, leaning against the table, she looked as much like the outward picture of a lady as made no odds.
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
brtom commented on the word gamp
Number one swung lourdily her midwife's bag, the other's gamp poked in the beach.
Joyce, Ulysses, 3
December 30, 2006
knitandpurl commented on the word gamp
"The gamps and bonnets, the white gym-shoes, the bottles and the mildew king, the singing mortuary man, the Rose of Tralee, swam together in the snuggery ..." - Dylan Thomas in "Old Garbo," in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, p 96 of the New Directions Paperbook edition
December 9, 2008
silas commented on the word gamp
An umbrella. (From a large umbrella belonging to a character by the name of Gamp in Dickins' novel, Martin Chuzzlewit.)
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September 18, 2009
AllisonSylvester commented on the word gamp
a large umbrella
"We used my gamp as it poured on us on the way to our car"
November 1, 2010
AnWulf commented on the word gamp
A gamp is a cloth that contains a set of color stripes in the warp that are crossed by a set of color stripes in the weft.
"the colorful gamp that has matching warp and weft will be hemmed for a table runner"
April 9, 2013
qms commented on the word gamp
A brolly has too light a stamp;
A parasol will fail the damp.
For a serious roof
When you're on the hoof
A bumbershoot should be your gamp.
February 7, 2015