Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Gamp |
GampNoun1. (British) colloquial terms for an umbrella. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gamp" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Gamp (Mrs.), or Sarah Gamp (g hard). A monthly nurse, famous for her bulky umbrella and perpetual reference to Mrs. Harris, a purely imaginary person, whose opinions always confirmed her own. (Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit.) "Mrs. Harris, I says to her, if I could afford to lay out all my fellow creeturs for nothink, I would gladly do it. Such is the love I bear `em." Punch caricatures the Standard as "Mrs. Sarah Gamp," a little woman with an enormous bonnet and her characteristic umbrella. A Sarah Gamp, or Mrs. Gamp. A big, pawky umbrella, so called from Sarah Gamp. (See above.) In France it is called un Robinson, from Robinson Crusoe's umbrella. (Defoe.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: GampSynonym: brolly (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gamp |
| Specialty definitions using "gamp": Gamps and Harrises. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Gamp" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gamp" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gamp | 46 |
4 gamp | 11 |
forest gamp | 3 |
gamp sairy | 3 |
gamp sairey | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gamp"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Çadër (Brolly). (various references) | |
Arabic | مظلة كبيرة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | "олям чадър. (various references) | |
Czech | Velký Deštník. (various references) | |
French | Parapluie. (various references) | |
Greek | όεγάλη Ομπρέλλα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Erkölcstelen Alkalmi Bába. (various references) | |
Manx | scaaliaghee (brolly, umbrella). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ampgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Estropiado (cripple, crippled, infirm). (various references) | |
Romanian | Umbrelã Mare De Ploaie. (various references) | |
Russian | Зонтик (Brolly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veliki kišobran. (various references) | |
Spanish | Paraguas (Brolly, umbrella). (various references) | |
Swedish | Paraply (Brolly, umbrella). (various references) | |
Turkish | Yaşlı Ve Yararsız Hastabakıcı, Ýşe Yaramaz Þemsiye. (various references) | |
Ukranian | 'елика Парасолька. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gamp": gamps. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gamp" (pronounced ga"mp) |
| 3 | -a" m p | amp, camp, champ, clamp, cramp, damp, decamp, encamp, lamp, ramp, revamp, samp, stamp, tamp, tramp, unclamp, vamp. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-m-p" | |
-1 letter: amp, gam, gap, mag, map, pam. | |
-2 letters: ag, am, ma, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-m-p" | |
+1 letter: gamps, gramp. | |
+2 letters: gazump, gramps, magilp, magpie. | |
+3 letters: apogamy, camping, campong, damping, epigram, galumph, gazumps, grampus, gripman, kampong, lamping, magilps, magpies, mapping, medigap, megapod, mispage, palming, pangram, plumage, pregame, primage, program, pugmark, pygmean, rampage, ramping, tamping, vamping. | |
+4 letters: amperage, apogamic, apothegm, campagna, campagne, campaign, campings, campongs, champing, clamping, cramping, dampings, empaling, epigrams, galumphs, gapeworm, gazumped, gazumper, grapheme, impaling, kampongs, mappings, medigaps, megalops, megapode, megapods, mispaged, mispages, myograph, omophagy, pagandom, paganism, pangrams, paradigm, patagium, picogram, plumaged, plumages, plumbago, polygamy, pomading, postgame, primages, programs, psalming, pugmarks, pygmaean, rampaged, rampager, rampages, sampling, scamping, spamming, sphagnum, stamping, stumpage, swamping, tramping, umpirage. | |
+5 letters: amperages, apogamies, apogamous, apothegms, campaigns, campusing, champagne, champaign, comparing, cryptogam, dampening, decamping, deprogram, diaphragm, empennage, emplacing, emplaning, encamping, epiphragm, exampling, galumphed, gapeworms, gazumpers, gazumping, grampuses, graphemes, graphemic, hampering, homograph, hypergamy, impacting, impairing, imparking, imparting, impasting, impawning, kymograph, lagomorph, lamplight, mapmaking, megaphone, megapodes, megaspore, mispaging, monograph, monophagy, multipage, mycophagy, myographs, napalming, nomograph, oompahing, pagandoms, paganisms, pampering, paradigms, pegmatite, pentagram, phonogram, photogram, picograms, pictogram, plasmagel, plumbagos, polygamic, pragmatic, prearming, programed, programer, programme, ptarmigan, rampagers, rampaging, remapping, reprogram, revamping, samplings, sphagnums, stumpages, sugarplum, tampering, tamponing, trampling, umpirages, zigamorph. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 6D 70 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- -- .--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01101101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a m p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 006D 0070 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41677982 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
