gamp
Example Sentences
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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 Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman) O'Neill
"You don't think I'd do a thing like that on purpose!" he said, and saw for the first time that the man with the gamp was Joses.
From Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs by Alfred Ollivant
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 Edward Dyson
In earnest whereof Mrs. Parsley again thumped the floor with her "gamp."
From A Woman's Burden by Fergus Hume
Ah! take and hide me in some hollow lair, Red hills of Var! and ye umbrella-pines, Cover me like a gamp!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
