Dimber-Damber

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

English

Noun

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.