gamp
Example Sentences
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Well, there it is as glaring and apparent as Borrow’s big green gamp or De Quincey’s insularity.
From The Vagabond in Literature by Rickett, Arthur
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 O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)
The one I've got is an old gamp with a stout indiarubber ring to it.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 24, 1917 by Various
Well, I was going to a match at lord's, and it looked rather dull, so mother told me I'd better take a gamp.
From A Dominie in Doubt by Neill, Alexander Sutherland
"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 Ollivant, Alfred
