Gampn.

Brit.

/ɡamp/, U.S.

/ɡæmp/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Gamp.

Etymology: < the name of Mrs. Sarah Gamp (also Sairey Gamp), a character in Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit (first published in monthly parts in 1843–4). Sarah Gamp is an alcoholic monthly nurse (compare monthly nurse n. at monthly adj. and n. Compounds), who habitually carries a large cotton umbrella in a poor condition. Compare earlier Gamp-like adj., Gampish adj.

1. A woman resembling Mrs. Gamp; spec. an unqualified or amateur nurse of a kind formerly engaged to visit the sick or to attend mothers after childbirth, or a type of comic, grotesque, or drunken nurse. Also more fully Sairey Gamp, Sarah Gamp. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > healer > nurse > [noun] > other types

man-nurse1530

probationer nurse1584

parish nurse1716

day nurse1759

school nurse1836

Gamp1846

hospital nurse1848

pupil nurse1861

male nurse1874

district nurse1883

relief nurse1884

casualty nurse1885

bayman1888

maid nurse1895

charge-nurse1896

ward nurse1899

health visitor1901

practice nurse1912

community nurse1922

scrub nurse1927

theatre nurse1934

para-nurse1942

nurse practitioner1967

rehab nurse1977

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [noun] > woman

cotquean1593

rouncival1596

city wire1616

rouncy1647

Gamp1846

1846 Bentley's Misc. 19 515 Those magging crones who always assemble on the occasions of a mortal coming into the world, or going out of it—amateur Mrs. Gamps, if we may be permitted to term them so.

1848 T. H. Yeoman Consumption of Lungs 71 Dear old grandmammas and pertinacious Sarah Gamps adhere too closely to the unhealthy custom of their childhood.

1856 F. Nightingale Let. 22 Apr. in Lett. from Crimea (1997) 259 I could give instances of a composition of Extras which a trusty old Nurse (not a ‘Gamp’) would not incur the risk of administering.

1885 Med. Age 25 Aug. 368/2 The nurse's propensity to give it sugar-and-butter, brandy-and-water, and the other mixtures for which the Sairey Gamps have a weakness.

1907 Trained Nurse & Hosp. Rev. Dec. 359/1 There were left in a two-room shack a woman with a temperature of 103 degrees and a ten-day-old baby,..by a ‘Gamp’, who evidently did not believe in the cleansing properties of water.

1983 Hist. Workshop No. 16. 35 Replacing drunken Sarah Gamps with a more respectable class of women who could be trusted to cook, clean and attend to the patients' physical requirements.

1996 A. M. Rafferty Politics Nursing Knowl. i. 21 The new hospital-trained nurse's reliability, sobriety, skill, diligence, discipline and efficiency contrasted with the Gamps she supplanted.

2. Chiefly British colloquial. Frequently with lower-case initial. An umbrella, esp. one tied up in a loose, untidy fashion. Also more fully Gamp umbrella. Now somewhat archaic.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > umbrella or protection against bad weather > [noun]

umbrella1634

umbrell1816

mush1821

gingham1838

mushroom1839

roof1844

Gamp1855

1855 Notes & Queries 25 Aug. 137/2 The dropsical, parturient gingham of former days,..embalmed in the inimitable conception of Dickens, may be affectionately remembered by posterity as a ‘Gamp’, just as such a primitive, cumbrous instrument has been styled for a century in France ‘un Robinson’.

1861 H. M. G. Smythies Daily Governess I. vii. 58 The great discrepancy between the old plaid cloak, shabby bonnet, and ‘Gamp’ umbrella, and the taste and richness of the toilet beneath.

1883 G. R. Sims Lifeboat 85 He donned his goloshes and shouldered his gamp.

1918 G. M. Baillie Reynolds Lonely Stronghold i. 9 ‘What weather!’ muttered Miss Hand... ‘With my usual luck, came without a gamp this morning,’ grumbled Miss Turner.

1993 L. Fairbanks Sister Carrie viii. 126 Rains this time every day. Need a gamp.

2003 J. Clayton Charles Dickens in Cyberspace Introd. 4 He took pleasure in noting the spinoff products from his imagination, such as the Little Nell Cigar and the Gamp Umbrella.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† gampadj.

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Compare gump n.¹, and also later Scots gamf , gamp , gaump to be foolishly merry, to laugh loudly, to mock, to mimic, and gamf , gomf buffoon, fool, idle meddling person (both 19th cent.: see Sc. National Dict. at gamf v., n., adj.) and earlier gamphrel n. Perhaps compare also gamp v. and the group of words discussed at gam n.¹ N.E.D. (1898) gives the pronunciation as (gæmp) /ɡæmp/.

Scottish. Obsolete.

Apparently: playful, sportive.

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society > leisure > entertainment > playfulness > [adjective]

gamingOE

playfulc1225

gamefulc1275

gamelya1350

gamesomea1375

playable?c1475

frisky?a1500

sporting1549

sportful1577

toyish1577

toyful1580

sportive1593

gambol1600

sportly1600

sporting1607

playsome1612

jiggish1635

toysome1638

ludible1656

ludibund1668

good-humoured1682

flippant1711

lusory1711

gamp1737

kittenish1753

sportable1767

disportive1773

whisky1782

playward1878

1737 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. IV. 104 In yonder town there wons a May, Snack and perfyte as can be ony, She is sae jimp, sae gamp, sae gay, Sae capernoytie, and sae bonny.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

gampv.

Brit.

/ɡamp/, U.S.

/ɡæmp/, Scottish English

/ɡamp/

Forms: 1800s gamph, 1800s gaump, 1800s– gamp.

Origin: Probably an imitative or expressive formation.

Etymology: Probably of imitative or expressive origin; compare champ v. However, compare also gam n.¹ and discussion at that entry.

Scottish. Now rare.

1. transitive. To devour or eat greedily; to gulp down.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat voraciously

forswallowOE

gulch?c1225

afretea1350

moucha1350

glop1362

gloup1362

forglut1393

worrya1400

globbec1400

forsling1481

slonk1481

franch1519

gull1530

to eat up1535

to swallow up1535

engorge1541

gulp1542

ramp1542

slosh1548

raven1557

slop1575

yolp1579

devour1586

to throw oneself on1592

paunch1599

tire1599

glut1600

batten1604

frample1606

gobbet1607

to make a (also one's) meal on (also upon)a1616

to make a (also one's) meal of1622

gorge1631

demolish1639

gourmanda1657

guttle1685

to gawp up1728

nyam1790

gamp1805

slummock1808

annihilate1815

gollop1823

punish1825

engulf1829

hog1836

scoff1846

brosier1850

to pack away1855

wolf1861

locust1868

wallop1892

guts1934

murder1935

woof1943

pelicana1953

pig1979

1805 A. Scott Poems 154 A wally dish o' them weel champit,..How glibly up we'll see them gampit, ‘As clean's a bead’.

1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 143 Gamp it doon.

2. intransitive. †Of a dog: to prowl around with a gaping mouth hunting for food (obsolete rare). Also: to gape widely.

ΚΠ

1821 in J. Hogg Jacobite Relics Scotl. 2nd Ser. 201 Hell's black bitch mastiff lapt the broo,..And, maddening wi' perdition's porridge, Gamph'd to and fro for wholesome forage.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Gamp, to gape wide.

1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 143 Gamp, to gape widely.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.1846

adj.1737

v.1805

单词	gamp
释义	Gampn. Brit. /ɡamp/, U.S. /ɡæmp/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Gamp. Etymology: < the name of Mrs. Sarah Gamp (also Sairey Gamp), a character in Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit (first published in monthly parts in 1843–4). Sarah Gamp is an alcoholic monthly nurse (compare monthly nurse n. at monthly adj. and n. Compounds), who habitually carries a large cotton umbrella in a poor condition. Compare earlier Gamp-like adj., Gampish adj. 1. A woman resembling Mrs. Gamp; spec. an unqualified or amateur nurse of a kind formerly engaged to visit the sick or to attend mothers after childbirth, or a type of comic, grotesque, or drunken nurse. Also more fully Sairey Gamp, Sarah Gamp. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > nurse > [noun] > other types man-nurse1530 probationer nurse1584 parish nurse1716 day nurse1759 school nurse1836 Gamp1846 hospital nurse1848 pupil nurse1861 male nurse1874 district nurse1883 relief nurse1884 casualty nurse1885 bayman1888 maid nurse1895 charge-nurse1896 ward nurse1899 health visitor1901 practice nurse1912 community nurse1922 scrub nurse1927 theatre nurse1934 para-nurse1942 nurse practitioner1967 rehab nurse1977 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [noun] > woman cotquean1593 rouncival1596 city wire1616 rouncy1647 Gamp1846 1846 Bentley's Misc. 19 515 Those magging crones who always assemble on the occasions of a mortal coming into the world, or going out of it—amateur Mrs. Gamps, if we may be permitted to term them so. 1848 T. H. Yeoman Consumption of Lungs 71 Dear old grandmammas and pertinacious Sarah Gamps adhere too closely to the unhealthy custom of their childhood. 1856 F. Nightingale Let. 22 Apr. in Lett. from Crimea (1997) 259 I could give instances of a composition of Extras which a trusty old Nurse (not a ‘Gamp’) would not incur the risk of administering. 1885 Med. Age 25 Aug. 368/2 The nurse's propensity to give it sugar-and-butter, brandy-and-water, and the other mixtures for which the Sairey Gamps have a weakness. 1907 Trained Nurse & Hosp. Rev. Dec. 359/1 There were left in a two-room shack a woman with a temperature of 103 degrees and a ten-day-old baby,..by a ‘Gamp’, who evidently did not believe in the cleansing properties of water. 1983 Hist. Workshop No. 16. 35 Replacing drunken Sarah Gamps with a more respectable class of women who could be trusted to cook, clean and attend to the patients' physical requirements. 1996 A. M. Rafferty Politics Nursing Knowl. i. 21 The new hospital-trained nurse's reliability, sobriety, skill, diligence, discipline and efficiency contrasted with the Gamps she supplanted. 2. Chiefly British colloquial. Frequently with lower-case initial. An umbrella, esp. one tied up in a loose, untidy fashion. Also more fully Gamp umbrella. Now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > umbrella or protection against bad weather > [noun] umbrella1634 umbrell1816 mush1821 gingham1838 mushroom1839 roof1844 Gamp1855 1855 Notes & Queries 25 Aug. 137/2 The dropsical, parturient gingham of former days,..embalmed in the inimitable conception of Dickens, may be affectionately remembered by posterity as a ‘Gamp’, just as such a primitive, cumbrous instrument has been styled for a century in France ‘un Robinson’. 1861 H. M. G. Smythies Daily Governess I. vii. 58 The great discrepancy between the old plaid cloak, shabby bonnet, and ‘Gamp’ umbrella, and the taste and richness of the toilet beneath. 1883 G. R. Sims Lifeboat 85 He donned his goloshes and shouldered his gamp. 1918 G. M. Baillie Reynolds Lonely Stronghold i. 9 ‘What weather!’ muttered Miss Hand... ‘With my usual luck, came without a gamp this morning,’ grumbled Miss Turner. 1993 L. Fairbanks Sister Carrie viii. 126 Rains this time every day. Need a gamp. 2003 J. Clayton Charles Dickens in Cyberspace Introd. 4 He took pleasure in noting the spinoff products from his imagination, such as the Little Nell Cigar and the Gamp Umbrella. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † gampadj. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Compare gump n.¹, and also later Scots gamf , gamp , gaump to be foolishly merry, to laugh loudly, to mock, to mimic, and gamf , gomf buffoon, fool, idle meddling person (both 19th cent.: see Sc. National Dict. at gamf v., n., adj.) and earlier gamphrel n. Perhaps compare also gamp v. and the group of words discussed at gam n.¹ N.E.D. (1898) gives the pronunciation as (gæmp) /ɡæmp/. Scottish. Obsolete. Apparently: playful, sportive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > playfulness > [adjective] gamingOE playfulc1225 gamefulc1275 gamelya1350 gamesomea1375 playable?c1475 frisky?a1500 sporting1549 sportful1577 toyish1577 toyful1580 sportive1593 gambol1600 sportly1600 sporting1607 playsome1612 jiggish1635 toysome1638 ludible1656 ludibund1668 good-humoured1682 flippant1711 lusory1711 gamp1737 kittenish1753 sportable1767 disportive1773 whisky1782 playward1878 1737 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. IV. 104 In yonder town there wons a May, Snack and perfyte as can be ony, She is sae jimp, sae gamp, sae gay, Sae capernoytie, and sae bonny. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). gampv. Brit. /ɡamp/, U.S. /ɡæmp/, Scottish English /ɡamp/ Forms: 1800s gamph, 1800s gaump, 1800s– gamp. Origin: Probably an imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Probably of imitative or expressive origin; compare champ v. However, compare also gam n.¹ and discussion at that entry. Scottish. Now rare. 1. transitive. To devour or eat greedily; to gulp down. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat voraciously forswallowOE gulch?c1225 afretea1350 moucha1350 glop1362 gloup1362 forglut1393 worrya1400 globbec1400 forsling1481 slonk1481 franch1519 gull1530 to eat up1535 to swallow up1535 engorge1541 gulp1542 ramp1542 slosh1548 raven1557 slop1575 yolp1579 devour1586 to throw oneself on1592 paunch1599 tire1599 glut1600 batten1604 frample1606 gobbet1607 to make a (also one's) meal on (also upon)a1616 to make a (also one's) meal of1622 gorge1631 demolish1639 gourmanda1657 guttle1685 to gawp up1728 nyam1790 gamp1805 slummock1808 annihilate1815 gollop1823 punish1825 engulf1829 hog1836 scoff1846 brosier1850 to pack away1855 wolf1861 locust1868 wallop1892 guts1934 murder1935 woof1943 pelicana1953 pig1979 1805 A. Scott Poems 154 A wally dish o' them weel champit,..How glibly up we'll see them gampit, ‘As clean's a bead’. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 143 Gamp it doon. 2. intransitive. †Of a dog: to prowl around with a gaping mouth hunting for food (obsolete rare). Also: to gape widely. ΚΠ 1821 in J. Hogg Jacobite Relics Scotl. 2nd Ser. 201 Hell's black bitch mastiff lapt the broo,..And, maddening wi' perdition's porridge, Gamph'd to and fro for wholesome forage. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Gamp, to gape wide. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 143 Gamp, to gape widely. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1846adj.1737v.1805
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