gamp

Example Sentences

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

From A Dominie in Doubt by Neill, Alexander Sutherland

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

From Will of the Mill by Fenn, George Manville

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

One girl screamed, but the heroine from the old-established lodging-house boldly entered the cage, swinging her gamp.

From The Missing Link by Dyson, Edward

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)