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Thread #135311 Message #3984296
Posted By: Long Firm Freddie
24-Mar-19 - 07:30 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: While I Was Licking My Stamp (Champion)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: While I Was Licking My Stamp (Champion)
From Collins Online English Dictionary:
Word origin of 'gamp' C19: after Mrs Sarah Gamp, a nurse in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit, who carried a faded cotton umbrella.
Her husband had a wooden leg but whether that that prompted the lyric about her leg being in Harry's eye I couldn't say!