gamp

noun
/ɡæmp/US/ɡamp/UK

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. An umbrella.

    • 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.
    • In his hand he waved – an appropriate symbol of disapprobation – his London gamp meticulously rolled.
  2. A gynandromorphophile, a tranny chaser.

  3. Abbreviation of gynandromorphophilia.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA