gamgee

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English

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Etymology

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From Gamgee Tissue, a surgical dressing containing cotton wool, invented by Dr. Joseph Sampson Gamgee in Birmingham, England, in 1880.

Noun

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gamgee (uncountable)

  1. (UK, dialect) cotton wool