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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Chiefly British A large baggy umbrella.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A large umbrella: said to be so called from Mrs. Gamp, a character in Charles Dickens's novel “Martin Chuzzlewit.”
  2. To eat greedily; gulp down.

Wiktionary

  1. n. UK, dated An umbrella.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A large umbrella; -- said to allude to Mrs. Gamp's umbrella, in Dickens's “Martin Chuzzlewit.”

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. colloquial terms for an umbrella

Etymologies

  1. After Mrs Sarah Gamp, a character who carried a large umbrella in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit. (Wiktionary)
  2. After the umbrella of Mrs. Sarah Gamp, a character in the novel Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The moment, however, a step on the stair was heard, he snatched up hat and gamp, and in two-twos was outside the door of the flat.”

    Two Tales of Old Strasbourg

  • “A fellow dived on him, grabbing his wrist, the squawking woman was belabouring me with her gamp, Joe was hurling his attacker aside … but by that time I was going through the dining section like Springheeled Jack, sending a table flying as I plunged through the kitchen door.”

    Flashman and the angel of the lord

  • “A fellow dived on him, grabbing his wrist, the squawking woman was belabouring me with her gamp, Joe was hurling his attacker aside ... but by that time I was going through the dining section like Springheeled Jack, sending a table flying as I plunged through the kitchen door.”

    Flashman and the angel of the lord

  • “I hopped aboard an empty Frog ammunition cart going back to Sinho, spied Grant's marker by a covered wagon, and strolled up to report, swinging my gamp.”

    Flashman and the Dragon

  • “The carriages were inside, and as the first wagon followed with its wailing occupants-all but Aphrodite, who was thrashing the tail-board with the remains of her gamp, in a fine berserk fury still-I hurried through the gates.”

    Flashman and The Redskins

  • “I egged her on, and we got her into the long coat, and adjusted the broad-brimmed bonnet and veil, and I jammed the shoes on her feet, and gloved her, and stuck the gamp in her hand -- and when she managed to stand, leaning against the table, she looked as much like the outward picture of a lady as made no odds.”

    Flash For Freedom

  • “Gus's conceit one by one, until he felt very much like a damp, damaged gamp, and about as helpless.”

    Acton's Feud A Public School Story

  • ““Shut that door, and put your gamp away and come here, damn you.””

    Death of a Peer

  • “Well, yesterday we had a quaint old bird calling at the Station - Gladstone sort of collar, whiskery bits, four-in-hand tie, cotton gloves, square-crowned bowler, big green gamp - all complete.”

    Have His Carcase

  • “You kicked yourself because you hadn't taken your mother's advice and brought a gamp.”

    A Dominie in Doubt

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  1. Camp
  2. Champ
  3. amp
  4. camp
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  2. clamp
  3. cramp
  4. damp
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  2. encamp
  3. kamp
  4. lamp
  1. lampp
  2. ramp
  3. revamp
  4. samp
  1. stamp
  2. tamp
  3. tramp
  4. vamp

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  • AnWulf A gamp is a cloth that contains a set of color stripes in the warp that are crossed by a set of color stripes in the weft.

    "the colorful gamp that has matching warp and weft will be hemmed for a table runner" Apr 8, 2013

  • AllisonSylvester a large umbrella
    "We used my gamp as it poured on us on the way to our car" Nov 1, 2010

  • silas An umbrella. (From a large umbrella belonging to a character by the name of Gamp in Dickins' novel, Martin Chuzzlewit.)

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gamp

    http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gamp

    http://www.brownielocks.com/words.html Sep 18, 2009

  • knitandpurl "The gamps and bonnets, the white gym-shoes, the bottles and the mildew king, the singing mortuary man, the Rose of Tralee, swam together in the snuggery ..." - Dylan Thomas in "Old Garbo," in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, p 96 of the New Directions Paperbook edition Dec 9, 2008

  • brtom Number one swung lourdily her midwife's bag, the other's gamp poked in the beach.
    Joyce, Ulysses, 3 Dec 29, 2006

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