Dimber Damber
See also: dimber damber, dimber-damber, and Dimber-Damber
English
Noun
Dimber Damber (plural Dimber Dambers)
- Alternative form of dimber damber
- 1834, Ainsworth, William Harrison, Rookwood, 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.
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