Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A drink made of rum, sugar, water, and nutmeg.
- n. A native name in Sierra Leone for a fragrant resin resembling incense, which is yielded by the bumbo- or bungo-tree, Daniellia thurifera, as a result of punctures of the twigs and branches by an insect. See bungo-tree.
Wiktionary
Examples
“BUT – I do find it helps to rotate him through different positions and places – in his exersaucer, in a bouncy chair, in a bumbo, on his tummy, on his back, sitting up …”
“The bumbo seat has also had to be put out of service since she worked out how to get out of it easily and I caught her doing a headstand.”
“Here's my lovely little boy sat in the bumbo with his hat on next to his great-granddad and looking like a little gnome!”
“Will leave you with a pic of my now hefty girl looking very Victorian with a big bumbo skirt!”
“I wondered what she was going to say next, that she wanted to chase the bumbo claat bald heads out of town.”
“Yesterday I got out the bumbo chair for you to try out.”
“I think you liked the new perspective of the world sitting up in your bumbo chair gave you.”
“BUT - I do find it helps to rotate him through different positions and places - in his exersaucer, in a bouncy chair, in a bumbo, on his tummy, on his back, sitting up...”
“Luhya (Marachi): luoba Luhya (Samia): obwoba Luhya (Tachoni): obwaba, bumbo Luo: obuolo, obwolo Maa: osuyai Mbeere: ikunu Meru: makunu Pokot: kelyomough, oota, ooten (plural)”
“A very large marble is a bumbo and a very small one a peawee.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bumbo’.
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bum phrases/words
how bum is used
bumbag, bum-barrel, bum-beating, bum-blade, bum-boy, bum-brusher, bum cleavage, bum-creeper, bum-dagger, bum-delighting, bum-fluff, bum-fodder and 104 more...
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Trees!
mahogany, sequoia, balsa, sandalwood, tamarind, balsam, eucalyptus, birch, willow, buttonwood, evergreen, loblolly and 501 more...
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Gums & Resins
Naturally occurring gums and resins.
amber, copal, dammar, mastic, sandarac, ammoniacum, gamboge, elemi, scammony, myrrh, turpentine, copaiba and 155 more...
Tweets
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bilby *pfghrrttt!* This gum tastes like sh*t! Oct 29, 2009
madmouth image search suggests the meaning has changed somewhat Oct 29, 2009