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gamp

Noun CEFR B1
ɡæmp

Definitions

  1. An umbrella.
  2. A gynandromorphophile, a tranny chaser.
  3. Abbreviation of gynandromorphophilia.

Examples

“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.”
“And it was early morning, and the world was moist, when the crystal-gazer's husband, a freak in knickerbockers with an open⟳ coppish and a sabbath gamp, came over the stones outside his house to meet⟳ the holy travellers.”
“In his hand he waved – an appropriate symbol of disapprobation – his London gamp meticulously rolled.”

CEFR level

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