gamp noun. [gamp] M19.
[Mrs Gamp (see below).]
1. A woman resembling Mrs Sarah Gamp, a monthly nurse in Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit; spec. a drunken or disreputable sick nurse. Now rare. M19.

2. An umbrella, esp. a large untidy one such as that carried by Mrs Gamp. M19.

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