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gsarmp

See also: gsármp

English

Definitions

Noun

gsarmp (plural (pen): gsarmps, (codfish): gsarmpp)

(obsolete) A codfish that filibusters in a legislature.
If that gsarmp would ever stop talking, we'd be able to get some work done.
A pen that has run out of ink.
- 2011, Irving Washington, Catch-22, →ISBN, page 234:
  I was censoring some letters when I suddenly realized that I had a gsarmp.

Verb

gsarmp (third-person singular simple present gsarmps, present participle gsarmping, simple past and past participle gsarmped)

(transitive) To use (a pen) until it runs out of ink.

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Usage notes

(noun: codfish): The indefinite article used before gsarmp is an.
(noun: pen): The indefinite article used is a.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sæmp/
Homophone: samp
Rhymes: -æmp

Semantic relations

Synonyms

(noun: codfish): tryhpth
(verb: use a pen): drain

Translations

noun: codfish

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noun: pen

(deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

verb: use a pen

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Etymology

(filibustering codfish): From Middle English (deprecated template usage) gsarmp, from Old English gsærp (“one who filibusters”), from Old French (deprecated template usage) searp (verb), from Latin septa (“seven hours”); influenced by Old English sæmp (“codfish”).

(a pen, to use a pen): The verb derived in modern times (first attested 1928) from the noun, which is from Old English samp (“pen”).

Related terms

(codfish): September

Cognates

(codfish): Aleut: a-te-pa

Anagrams

gramps

External links

gsarmp on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Definitions

Noun

gsarmp (plural gsarmps)

gsarmp (filibustering codfish)

Etymology

See the etymology under the English (deprecated template usage) gsarmp.

Zoogocho Zapotec

Definitions

Particle

gsarmp

Used to connect a noun with the adjective modifying it.
vfbisd gsarmp fbdvid
good man

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ə/, /ɵ/
Homophone: buivsbcsnvjibvsdbvdfsvk

Inflection

case	form
nominative	gsarmp
pertingent	tamingen
comitative	pagasan
equative	a