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Gampish

Gampish adjective: resembling or characteristic of Sarah Gamp, a dissolute, sloppy and drunken nurse in Charles Dickens' novel Martin Chuzzlewit (1843).

Adjective

Gampish (comparative more Gampish, superlative most Gampish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of Sarah Gamp, a dissolute, sloppy and drunken nurse in Charles Dickens' novel Martin Chuzzlewit (1843).

Forms of Gampish

comparativemore Gampish
superlativemost Gampish

Origin of Gampish

From Gamp + -ish.

Questions about Gampish

What does Gampish mean?
Gampish means resembling or characteristic of Sarah Gamp, a dissolute, sloppy and drunken nurse in Charles Dickens' novel Martin Chuzzlewit (1843).
What part of speech is Gampish?
Gampish is an adjective.

Words near Gampish in the dictionary

  1. Gamow factors
  2. gamp
  3. gamphoside
  4. gampi
  5. Gampis
  6. Gampish
  7. gamps
  8. gams
  9. gamsbart
  10. gamsbarts
  11. Gamston

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