gamp

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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)

Ac ni wnaeth y dysgedig Mr. Edward Llwyd o’r Musæum, gamp yn y byd yn y perwyl yma, er ei fod yn gydnabyddus â holl geinciau prifiaith Prydain. 

From Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evans, Evan

It was quite a good disguise; and a pair of black cotton gloves, two sizes too large, and a sort of lumpy gamp umbrella helped to suggest the character I had in my mind.

From The Man Without a Memory by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)

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