different between gamp vs samp

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 Massachusett nasamp, nasaump (“softened with water”); compare suppawn.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /samp/

Noun

samp (countable and uncountable, plural samps)

1. (chiefly US) An article of food consisting of coarse ground maize, or a porridge made from it.
   • 1675, The Captivity of Mary Rowlandson, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 341,

     I asked him to give me a little of his Broth, or Water they [Horses feet] were boiling in; he took a dish, and gave me one spoonful of Samp, and bid me take as much of the Broth as I would.

   • 1882, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 50, page 549,

     The meal, coarse or fine, is then used for samps, mushes, or batters, and cakes, thick or thin, and of many varieties and degrees of wholesomeness.

   • 1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, page 18,

     'You kids have everything but you don't appreciate it. Mom must cook you beans and samps. Do you hear? Just beans and samps. That's all. Beans and samps.'

   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, page 44,

     We remained in class until 12.45, and then had a lunch of samp, sour milk and beans, seldom meat.

   • 2004, Louise Cabral, A Pageant of Shadows, page 327,

     Abigail taught her the use of the samp mortar. Samp was corn broken into coarse grains and boiled as porridge.

   • 2005, Fran Osseo-Asare, Food Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa, page 74,

     In the area of cuisine, the Xhosa have contributed many corn recipes, most famously samp and beans (umngqusho).

Anagrams

• AMPS, APMs, MAPs, MPAs, SPAM, Spam, amps, maps, pams, spam

Quiripi

Noun

samp

1. (Unquachog) hominy

References

• 1791, Thomas Jefferson, A vocabulary of the Language of the Unquachog Indians

Wolof

Verb

1. to erect

References

Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, ?ISBN, page 18