Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The American eider-duck: so called from the ap pearance of the drake.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The common American eider.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology The common American
eider .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ok ... do you mean "wamp", "wanp", or do you actually mean LAMP?
LinuxQuestions.org ganesh_mark 2010
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And on the guitar, from the great dunes of Tatooine, the great wamp-rat slayer Luke Skywalker!
GalaxyFarAway.com | » 2009 » March - A Complete Star Wars Reference 2009
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And on the guitar, from the great dunes of Tatooine, the great wamp-rat slayer Luke Skywalker!
Star Wars Rocks 2009
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You see, I find their upbeat “Wamp, wamp, chhh, digga diggah,” man-made percussion just the perfect thing to keep me going.
La Coquette: 2005
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You see, I find their upbeat “Wamp, wamp, chhh, digga diggah,” man-made percussion just the perfect thing to keep me going.
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When the revival project started, different Wampanoag communities pronounced it in the two different ways being discussed here--either three syllables, with the last one rhyming with 'log', or four wamp-a-NO-ag, with the last vowel that of "ash".
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In Princess Anne, there still remains so much uncleared ands wamp land, that the leaving cattle to range at large is deemed very profitable to the owners, and perhaps, in general, it is there more an offset to the expenses of fences, under our fence law, than in any other county of lower Virginia.
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I am running PHPBB 3 on local network using wamp server.
phpBB.com 2010
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I am running PHPBB 3 on local network using wamp server.
phpBB.com 2010
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I am running PHPBB 3 on local network using wamp server.
phpBB.com 2010
hernesheir commented on the word wamp
(n): another name for the American eider duck.
cf. shoal duck, Isle of Shoals duck, sea duck
(wamp from Peterson's Field Guide to the birds; latter terms from the Dict. of American Regional English)
January 12, 2009
reesetee commented on the word wamp
The American eider duck is "officially" called Common Eider.
Hernesheir, feel free to suggest any of these in the comments field on my Bird Nicknames list--or, of course, make up your own similar list. :-) And thanks!
January 12, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word wamp
Also, pied wamp.
January 13, 2009