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gamp en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ɡæmp/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɡamp/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (UK, colloquial, dated) An umbrella.
   • Number one swung lourdily her midwife's bag, the other's gamp poked in the beach. 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 3: Proteus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 38:
   • One gentleman sat with his gamp up on some rails near the railway. 1900, A. W. Pullin, Talks with old English cricketers, page 169:
   • In his hand he waved – an appropriate symbol of disapprobation – his London gamp meticulously rolled. 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1111:
   • 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. 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, published 1969, →ISBN, page 129:

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Relateds

Mrs. Gamp

wikipedia: Martin Chuzzlewit · wikipedia: Charles Dickens

gamp en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ɡæmp/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɡamp/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From GAMP (“gynandromorphophilia”).

Meanings

1. (qualifier:transgender slang) A gynandromorphophile, a tranny chaser.

Forms