| 单词 | gamp |
| 例句 | A "gamp" became a slang word for umbrella in the 19th century. Ten of the best brolleys in literature 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z It was quite a good disguise; and a pair of black cotton gloves, two sizes too large, and a sort of lumpy gamp umbrella helped to suggest the character I had in my mind. The Man Without a Memory 2011-03-09T03:00:45.963Z In earnest whereof Mrs. Parsley again thumped the floor with her "gamp." A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z Well, there it is as glaring and apparent as Borrow’s big green gamp or De Quincey’s insularity. The Vagabond in Literature Hitting, then, is the weak point of the gamp. Broad-Sword and Single-Stick With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defence You kicked yourself because you hadn't taken your mother's advice and brought a gamp. A Dominie in Doubt Ah! take and hide me in some hollow lair, Red hills of Var! and ye umbrella-pines, Cover me like a gamp! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 A brass band played the people in, and a trio of youngsters unfurled red, white, and blue parachutes,—alias gamps, alias ginghams, alias umberellers,—which were a popular feature of the "turn." Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Look here, how did you manage to get my gamp up yonder?” Will of the Mill Under the Old Umbrella, Beneath the leaking gamp, Wrapped up in woolly phrases We battle with the damp. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 8, 1920 Well, I was going to a match at lord's, and it looked rather dull, so mother told me I'd better take a gamp. A Dominie in Doubt From Dickens's famous character Mrs. Gamp in "Martin Chuzzlewit," who always carried a bulgy umbrella, we get the word gamp, rather a vulgar name for "umbrella." Stories That Words Tell Us A man in a slouch hat, carrying a gamp as untidy as himself, was walking before them down the middle of the road. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs “Likely I’m going to ask you after serving my gamp like that!” Will of the Mill She went off, still flourishing her sturdy gamp, and reiterating her determination to have the law on the infamous Missing Link. The Missing Link Some English "fellah" Has left his rotten gamp, and carried off My own Umbrella! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 30, 1892 The questions I have to ask are enough to make an old gamp blush. Delia Blanchflower "You don't think I'd do a thing like that on purpose!" he said, and saw for the first time that the man with the gamp was Joses. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs Molly had put on her shabbiest hat and oldest jacket; her gloves had some holes in them; her umbrella was rolled up in such a thick, ungainly fashion that it looked like a gamp. Light O' the Morning The heroine butted Mahdi the Missing Link with her gamp. The Missing Link Number one swung lourdily her midwife's bag, the other's gamp poked in the beach. Ulysses Now when I go, I take my husband's "storm" gamp and sit in a corner, hiding behind it. In a German Pension "Mark me, I'll find him, and when I do—" The sweep of her bulky gamp nearly knocked Bonypart off his platform. The Missing Link |
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