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Meaning of bamp | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/bæmp/

Definitions

  1. An idiotic and ill-mannered person.
    Geordie, derogatory
  2. One's grandfather.
    Wales

Examples

“‘Shut up’ hissed Gwilym. ‘Don't be so rude! He's a great old bloke. I wish he was my bamp.’”
“Bell went back to Wales and my stayed with me. A week later Dave's brother, Ann Jane, mum and me went to lay Dave's ashes at the same spot where his mum and dad, my nan and Bamp had been laid.”
“[I] might be a builder ... or a carpenter ... Might even be an engineer.... My Bamp does it. He’s an engineer”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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