Dimber Damber

See also: dimber damber, dimber-damber, and Dimber-Damber

English

Noun

Dimber Damber (plural Dimber Dambers)

1. Alternative form of dimber damber
   • 1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood‎^[1], volume 2, page 333:

     "No, no refusal," exclaimed a chorus of voices. "Dick Turpin must be one of us. He shall be our Dimber Damber."

   • 1849, The New Monthly Magazine - Volume 85, page 414:

     By the Rom-pad maundred none In quarrons both for stamp and bone, Like my Clapperdogeon! Dimber Damber fare thee well, Pallyards all thou didst excel;

   • 1914, Gypsy Lore Society, Monographs - Volume 1, page 111:

     Sung on the electing of a new Dimber Damber, or King of the Gypsies,

   • 2013, Thomas Keneally, The Playmaker, →ISBN:

     Everything that passed through the Bear and Dog, the Dimber Damber took a tax from– from jewel theft, from the income of the whores of the so-called pushing academies, from the haul of pickpockets and tricksters.