▪ I. gamp, a. Sc.
(gæmp)
? Playful, sportive.
| 1776 in Herd Collect. Sc. Songs II. 23 She is sae jimp, sae gamp, sae gay. |
▪ II. gamp, v. Sc.
(gæmp)
[echoic; cf. champ.]
trans. ‘To eat greedily, devour, gulp’ (Jam.).
| 1805 A. Scott Poems 154 (Jam.) A wally dish o' them weel champit,—How glibly up we'll see them gampit, As clean's a bead. |