gamp
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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
Number one swung lourdily her midwife's bag, the other's gamp poked in the beach.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
“Likely I’m going to ask you after serving my gamp like that!”
From Will of the Mill by George Manville Fenn
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 Alan Douglas
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
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