英语词汇“Gamp”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

Gamp

释义

Gamp, n.|gæmp|
[after Mrs. Sarah Gamp, a monthly nurse in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit, who carried a large cotton umbrella.]
1. A woman resembling Mrs. Gamp; a monthly nurse or sick nurse of a disreputable class.
1864Sun 28 Dec. 2/6 ‘A regular Gamp’, meaning thereby..a fat old dowdy of a monthly nurse, or a very large, bulgy, loosely tied cotton umbrella.1889A. R. Hope in Boy's Own Paper 3 Aug. 697/2 She was a trained hospital nurse of the class that is fast driving last generation's Sally Gamps out of the field.
2. An umbrella, esp. one tied up in a loose, untidy fashion.
1864[See 1].1883G. R. Sims Lifeboat, etc., Midsummer Day, He donned his goloshes, and shouldered his gamp.1887J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel (1892) 134, I trust your Gamp is water-tight!
attrib.1881Macm. Mag. XLV. 62 Grasping his gamp umbrella at the middle.

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