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gsarmp
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.
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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”).
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Middle English
Definitions
Noun
gsarmp (plural gsarmps)
- gsarmp (filibustering codfish)
Etymology
See the etymology under the English (deprecated template usage) gsarmp.
Zoogocho Zapotec
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Particle
gsarmp
- Used to connect a noun with the adjective modifying it.
- vfbisd gsarmp fbdvid
- good man
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