gamp (g mp)n. Chiefly British A large baggy umbrella. [After the umbrella of Mrs. Sarah Gamp, a character in the novel Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens.] |
gamp [gæmp]
n
Brit informal an umbrella
[after Mrs Sarah Gamp, a nurse in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit, who carried a faded cotton umbrella]
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| Noun | 1. |  gamp - colloquial terms for an umbrella umbrella - a lightweight handheld collapsible canopy Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom |
Translations
gamp
n (dated hum) → Regenschirm m, → Musspritze f (dated hum)
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