Dimber-Damber

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Noun

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Dimber-Damber (plural Dimber-Dambers)

  1. Alternative form of dimber damber
    • 1860, John Fellows, The mysteries of freemasonry, page 224:
      Then standing up in the middle of the fraternity, and directing his face to the Dimber-Damber, or prince of the gang, he swears, in this manner, as is dictated to him by one of the most experienced:
    • 1868, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch - Volumes 54-55, page 61:
      When each gipsy Dimber-Damber Wraps him in a sheet of amber, When the smiling glow-worm skims O'er the ice-berg, singing hymns, When electric organs roar Round sad Staffa's dismal door, and the mermaid seeks her den, Eating oysters — watch me then.
    • 1936, Ronald Fuller, The Beggars' Brotherhood, page 92:
      The Upright Man who performed the ceremony was the elected King of the Beggars, the Rector Chory or Dimber-Damber.