gamp

English

Etymology

After Mrs Sarah Gamp, a character who carried a large umbrella in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡamp/

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• Rhymes: -æmp

Noun

gamp (plural gamps)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• AGMP

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Related to Norwegian Nynorsk gimpe (“twist the upper body”)

Noun

gamp m (definite singular gampen, indefinite plural gamper, definite plural gampene)

1. (work) horse
2. 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.

References

• “gamp” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “gamp” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Related to gimpe (“twist the upper body”)

Noun

gamp m (definite singular gampen, indefinite plural gampar, definite plural gampane)

1. (work) horse
2. old horse, nag

References

• “gamp” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Welsh

Noun

gamp

1. Soft mutation of camp.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
camp	gamp	nghamp	champ
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.