English

Noun

dimber-damber ‎(plural dimber-dambers)

1. Alternative form of dimber damber
   • 1859, Matsell, George Washington, “Scene in a London Flash-Panny”, in The Vocabulum: or Rogues Lexicon, New York: George W. Matsell & Co:

     No, Jim, I only piked into Deuceaville with a dimber-damber, who couldn't pad the hoof for a single darkman's without his bloss to keep him from getting pogy.

   • 1947, Thomas Bertram Costain, For my great folly: and, The moneyman. Two famous novels by Thomas B. Costrain, page 240:

     "He'll make hisself the dimber-damber in ****," declared another.

   • 1996, Alan Garner, Strandloper, page 84:

     Renter lifted up a tin mug of lime juice and vinegar, and poured it over William's head, and shouted for all to hear: "I, dimber-damber and upright-man, with this gage of bowse, do Stall thee, Crank Cuffin, to the Rogue!..."

   • 2010, Jeffery Farnol & ‎F. Vaux Wilson, Our Admirable Betty, ISBN 1434404706, page 274:

     Not me, Jerry — there 's one a-coming as will tip you the lay — an old pal, Jerry, a flaming buck o' the high pad, a reg'lar dimber-damber, a — hist ! 'T is him at last, I think, but ha' your popps ready in case, Jerry.