different between gasp vs gamp

English

Etymology

From Middle English gaspen, gayspen (“to gape, outbreathe”), related to and likely derived from Old Norse geispa (“to yawn”) or its descendant Danish gispe, which may be related to gapa (“to gape”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???sp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æsp/
• Rhymes: -æsp

Verb

gasp (third-person singular simple present gasps, present participle gasping, simple past and past participle gasped)

1. (intransitive) To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock.

2. (intransitive) To breathe laboriously or convulsively.

   We were all gasping when we reached the summit.

   • c. 1761-1764, Robert Lloyd, An Epistle to C. Churchill, Author of the Rosicad

     She gasps and struggles hard for life.

3. (transitive) To speak in a breathless manner.

4. To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.

   • Quenching the gasping furrows' thirst with rain.

Translations

Noun

gasp (plural gasps)

1. A short, sudden intake of breath.

2. (Britain, slang): A draw or drag on a cigarette (or gasper).

Derived terms

• last gasp

Translations

Interjection

gasp

1. (humorous) The sound of a gasp.

   Gasp! What will happen next?

References

Anagrams

• A-GPS, AGPs, GPAs, PASG, SPAG, gaps, spag

Westrobothnian

Noun

gasp n

1. loud talking, joking, fun

Related terms

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