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  • noun Abusive language.

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  • (noun) - (1) Abusive language. To cample is a Northern word for to scold.

    --Roger Wilbraham's Glossary of Some Words Used in Cheshire, 1826

    (2) Amperlash, saucy, abusive language. "I'll have none o' thy amperlash."

    --Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905

    January 16, 2018