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Dimber Damber
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dimber damber dimber-damber Dimber-Damber
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Dimber Damber
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en 1834 w:William Harrison Ainsworth Rookwood (novel) Rookwood https://archive.org/details/rookwoodromance02ains 2 333 "No, no refusal," exclaimed a chorus of voices. "Dick Turpin must be one of us. He shall be our Dimber Damber."
en 1849 The New Monthly Magazine - Volume 85 414 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;
en 1914 Monographs - Volume 1 Gypsy Lore Society 111 Sung on the electing of a new Dimber Damber, or King of the Gypsies,
en 2013 The Playmaker Thomas Keneally 1444775634 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.