gamplessadj.
/ˈɡampləs/, U.S. /ˈɡæmpləs/ Now rare.
= umbrellaless adj.
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1893 M. E. Mann In Summer Shade I. ix. 208 Any old gampless woman of the congregation.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 2 Oct. 6/2 To provide ‘gampless’ seatholders with umbrellas.
1935 Adelphi Sept. 367 There's still a lot of umbrella-less Fascists slumping about the foothills of Abyssinia, making the gampless gambit as notorious in war as the fruitless errand is in diplomacy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1893- fish of game
- fish of passage
- fish on or upon the grabble
- fish or cut bait
- fish out
- fish out of water
- fish out the bottom of a person's stomach
- fish paper
- fish paste
- fish pole
- fish sausage
- fish screen
- fish stick
- fish supper
- fish tank
- fish tape
- fish tea
- fish the anchor
- fish to fry
- fish together
- fish wire
- fish with fly
- fish wrapper
- fish, flesh, and fowl
- fish-and-chip