gamp

Example Sentences

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Ach! it vos so pad I haf to get oudt right avay, und come pack to der gamp.

From Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day by Douglas, Alan

She went off, still flourishing her sturdy gamp, and reiterating her determination to have the law on the infamous Missing Link.

From The Missing Link by Dyson, Edward

Some English "fellah" Has left his rotten gamp, and carried off My own Umbrella!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 30, 1892 by Various

No; we gamp back in der Malibaan vere is old linden drees hunderd years old, eighd rows vun mile long, dere is vere we gamp, you gread fool!'

From Bunker Bean by Wilson, Harry Leon

From Dickens's famous character Mrs. Gamp in "Martin Chuzzlewit," who always carried a bulgy umbrella, we get the word gamp, rather a vulgar name for "umbrella."

From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)