gamp
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gamp
1860–65; after the umbrella of Mrs. Sarah Gamp in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit
Example Sentences
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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.
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In earnest whereof Mrs. Parsley again thumped the floor with her "gamp."
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A "gamp" became a slang word for umbrella in the 19th century.
From The Guardian
Well, there it is as glaring and apparent as Borrow’s big green gamp or De Quincey’s insularity.
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Hitting, then, is the weak point of the gamp.
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