gamp

Example Sentences

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“Likely I’m going to ask you after serving my gamp like that!”

From Will of the Mill by Fenn, George Manville

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.

From The Man Without a Memory by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)

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)

Now when I go, I take my husband's "storm" gamp and sit in a corner, hiding behind it.

From In a German Pension by Mansfield, Katherine

Number one swung lourdily her midwife's bag, the other's gamp poked in the beach.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James