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gamp

[gamp] / gæmp /


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She went off, still flourishing her sturdy gamp, and reiterating her determination to have the law on the infamous Missing Link.

From The Missing Link by Edward Dyson

No; we gamp back in der Malibaan vere is old linden drees hunderd years old, eighd rows vun mile long, dere is vere we gamp, you gread fool!'

From Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson

"Mark me, I'll find him, and when I do—" The sweep of her bulky gamp nearly knocked Bonypart off his platform.

From The Missing Link by Edward Dyson

Under the Old Umbrella, Beneath the leaking gamp, Wrapped up in woolly phrases We battle with the damp.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 8, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman

Ah! take and hide me in some hollow lair, Red hills of Var! and ye umbrella-pines, Cover me like a gamp!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman


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