Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An umbrella.
Wiktionary
- n. dated, humorous An umbrella.
Etymologies
- Apparently a variation on UMBrella + paraCHUTE; American in origin, it has become associated with British umbrellas, but has never been a Briticism. (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of umbrella + alteration of (para)chute. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Word of the day from the good Capt'n Sparrow: "bumbershoot”
“I am suddenly in love with the word 'bumbershoot'.”
“A "bumbershoot" is defined as an umbrella - and many business owners say it's protecting the local economy under it.”
“Nearly every store on this wholesale strip between Sixth and Seventh avenues, it turns out, carries the notorious bumbershoot.”
“Worry not, for I am armed with my deadly bumbershoot to stave off all the mashers of my unsolicited arsenal of verbose thoughts.”
“TBD bumbershoot – september 4 – 6, seattle, washington”
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“January 24th, 2009 @ 1:40 PM daily agenda, music the walkmen, at bumbershoot this summer photo by josh flickr”
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“February 2nd, 2009 @ 3:00 PM sports roller derby in key arena, bumbershoot 2006”
“Never mind that he later temporized this statement, and that his wife seemed to imply that after a few hours of ecstasy she was practically begging him to rush back into the studio and come up with more words to rhyme with "clover" and "bumbershoot.”
“February 25, 2008 at 6:24 pm ebberybuddy have yer fav. drinky—onlee rechoirmint issa littel paper bumbershoot in teh glass!”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bumbershoot’.
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Sue's favorite words
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how bum is used
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Names for the next generation of My Little Ponies. Inspired by Star's list.
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Odd-Ball
Just plain fun to say and wonder about their origins.
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jbd1's Words
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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gorgonglare's list
the best
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Tweets
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dontcry We say bumbershoot -- well, mostly my parents do, who are from Western PA. Oct 10, 2009
oroboros See brolly. Aug 21, 2009
slumry Seattle has an annual arts festival called Bumbershoot, Jul 12, 2007
reesetee Funny, EV--around my area it's bumpershoot (with a "p" in place of the second "b." :-) Apr 29, 2007
edwardvielmetti a funny word for umbrella, though this Swedish Chef video hints at it also being another name for blunderbuss: http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2007/04/definitive_answ.html Apr 28, 2007