Dimber Damber

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Noun

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Dimber Damber (plural Dimber Dambers)

  1. Alternative form of dimber damber
    • 1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood[1], volume 2, page 333:
      "No, no refusal," exclaimed a chorus of voices. "Dick Turpin must be one of us. He shall be our Dimber Damber."
    • 1849, The New Monthly Magazine - Volume 85, page 414:
      By the Rom-pad maundred none In quarrons both for stamp and bone, Like my Clapperdogeon! Dimber Damber fare thee well, Pallyards all thou didst excel;
    • 1914, Gypsy Lore Society, Monographs - Volume 1, page 111:
      Sung on the electing of a new Dimber Damber, or King of the Gypsies,
    • 2013, Thomas Keneally, The Playmaker, →ISBN:
      Everything that passed through the Bear and Dog, the Dimber Damber took a tax from– from jewel theft, from the income of the whores of the so-called pushing academies, from the haul of pickpockets and tricksters.