different between gamp vs pamp

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?amp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

Noun

gamp (plural gamps)

1. (Britain, dated) An umbrella.
   • 1900, A. W. Pullin, Talks with old English cricketers (page 169)

     It was the last day of the match, and owing to rain it was really unfit to play, but the promoters insisted upon our doing so, to satisfy the spectators, who stood round the ground with their umbrellas up. […] One gentleman sat with his gamp up on some rails near the railway.

   • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1111:

     In his hand he waved – an appropriate symbol of disapprobation – his London gamp meticulously rolled.

Anagrams

• AGMP

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Related to Norwegian Nynorsk gimpe (“twist the upper body”)

Noun

gamp m (definite singular gampen, indefinite plural gamper, definite plural gampene)

1. (work) horse
2. old horse, nag
   • 2017, "Sangen om den siste drage - bok 4" by Anne Olga Vea, Lulu.com ?ISBN [1]

References

• “gamp” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “gamp” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Related to gimpe (“twist the upper body”)

Noun

gamp m (definite singular gampen, indefinite plural gampar, definite plural gampane)

1. (work) horse
2. old horse, nag

References

• “gamp” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Welsh

Noun

gamp

1. Soft mutation of camp.

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English pampen, from Middle Low German pampen (“to pamper oneself, live luxuriously”), from Old Saxon *pamp?n, from Proto-Germanic *pamp?n? (“to swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *bamb- (“round object”). Cognate with West Frisian pampelje, Dutch pampelen, pamperen (“to cram, pamper”), German pampfen, bamben, Norwegian pampa (“to stuff oneself”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æmp

Verb

pamp (third-person singular simple present pamps, present participle pamping, simple past and past participle pamped)

1. (transitive, archaic) To pamper.

Anagrams

• MAPP