gamp
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editAfter Mrs Sarah Gamp, a character who carried a large umbrella in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit.
Noun
editgamp (plural gamps)
- (UK, dated) An umbrella.
- 1900, A. W. Pullin, Talks with old English cricketers, page 169:
- It was the last day of the match, and owing to rain it was really unfit to play, but the promoters insisted upon our doing so, to satisfy the spectators, who stood round the ground with their umbrellas up. […] One gentleman sat with his gamp up on some rails near the railway.
- a. 1954 (date written), Dylan Thomas, “The Holy Six”, in Adventures in the Skin Trade (A New Directions Paperbook; no. 183), New York, N.Y.: New Directions Publishing Corporation, published 1969, →ISBN, page 129:
- And it was early morning, and the world was moist, when the crystal-gazer's husband, a freak in knickerbockers with an open coppish and a sabbath gamp, came over the stones outside his house to meet the holy travellers.
- 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1111:
- In his hand he waved – an appropriate symbol of disapprobation – his London gamp meticulously rolled.
Etymology 2
editFrom GAMP (“gynandromorphophilia”).
Noun
editgamp (plural gamps)
- (LGBT) A gynandromorphophile, a tranny chaser.
Anagrams
editNorwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editRelated to Norwegian Nynorsk gimpe (“twist the upper body”)
Noun
editgamp m (definite singular gampen, indefinite plural gamper, definite plural gampene)
- (work) horse
- old horse, nag
- 2017, "Sangen om den siste drage - bok 4" by Anne Olga Vea, Lulu.com →ISBN [1]
- De hadde vært på den andre siden og prøvde å planlegge den videre fremrykningen da to av Haneks ryttere raste inn i leiren, mellom dem red en yngre kar på en temmelig møllspist gammel gamp og ham bar på en slags kasse.
- They had been on the other side and tried planning the further advance when two of Hanek's riders rushed into the camp, between them a younger man rode a rather moth-eaten old nag, carrying a type of case.
- 2017, "Sangen om den siste drage - bok 4" by Anne Olga Vea, Lulu.com →ISBN [1]
References
editNorwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editRelated to gimpe (“twist the upper body”)
Noun
editgamp m (definite singular gampen, indefinite plural gampar, definite plural gampane)
References
edit- “gamp” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Welsh
editNoun
editgamp
- Soft mutation of camp.
Mutation
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