Gamp vs Bamp - What's the difference?
gamp | bamp |
(UK, dated) An umbrella.
* 1900 , A. W. Pullin, Talks with old English cricketers (page 169)
* 1983 , (Lawrence Durrell), Sebastian'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 1111:
As nouns the difference between gamp and bamp
is that gamp is (uk|dated) an umbrella while bamp is (geordie|pejorative) an idiotic and ill-mannered person.gamp
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- In his hand he waved – an appropriate symbol of disapprobation – his London gamp meticulously rolled.