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- noun archaic Alternative spelling of
umbrella .
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Examples
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"And where, if you please, mem," inquired Parkins, in an icy tone and with a face stiffened by repressed displeasure -- "where do you think you have left your dressing-bag and humbrella?"
Cecilia de Noël Lanoe Falconer
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Whatever are you a-doing of to be out in the rain all alone, with no 'at and a humbrella four sizes too big for the likes of you, and them paper-soled things on yer feet? and, oh my! ain't yer frock muddy?
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Captain Blakeley's 100-pounder is not the only one we can turn out, and the sinking of the Alabama had very little to do with her guns or her crew -- weak wooden sides are not calculated to resist steel shot, or, as the late Mr. Selby said in one of his farces, "it's no use a tryin 'to stop a cannon ball with a humbrella."
Echoes of the Week 1864
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And now to see you coming along as cool as if nothing had happened; as if the humbrella had not lost its hivory 'andle, -- it's quite purvoking.
Lucretia — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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And now to see you coming along as cool as if nothing had happened; as if the humbrella had not lost its hivory 'andle, -- it's quite purvoking.
Lucretia — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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'Jesus, where am I going to'"; another growls"'I'll trouble you Miss, to remove your humbrella off my toe'"
Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject 2005
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Caddy's Toast in "Erminie" -- 'Ere's to the' ealth o 'your Royal' Ighness; hand may the skin o 'ha gooseberry be big enough for han humbrella to cover hall your enemies. "
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens
boyd commented on the word humbrella
A humbrella is an extra large umbrella that takes up too much space on the sidewalk.
June 6, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word humbrella
Cucumbrellas tend to be narrower in one dimension, so they fit on sidewalks better.
June 6, 2010
frogapplause commented on the word humbrella
HH: Teehee! Good one.
June 7, 2010
bilby commented on the word humbrella
Chumbrellas are big enough to shelter a friend as well.
June 7, 2010
gangerh commented on the word humbrella
Haha! And a mumbrella has an elongated front.
June 7, 2010
milosrdenstvi commented on the word humbrella
And a chunderbrella...ah, nevermind.
June 7, 2010
milosrdenstvi commented on the word humbrella
Gosh, it's late...I'm off to slumbrella...
June 7, 2010
bilby commented on the word humbrella
And I thought milos frequented a nice part of town :-(
June 7, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word humbrella
Humbrage!
June 7, 2010
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word humbrella
Aww! I was going to say that...
Humbrage in the humbuggiest form!
June 7, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word humbrella
There might be some cucumbrage left....
June 7, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word humbrella
Announcing the all-wood, all-natural lumbrella. Really large ones we sometimes call mobile gazebos.
June 7, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word humbrella
Looks for "burnt umbrella" in the box of little oil paint tubes.
June 7, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word humbrella
If every third person in a conga line deployed a cucumbrella in one hand, all dancers could stay dry while dancing, in the rain, on a sidewalk.
June 7, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word humbrella
On the other hand, if you're very small, you could use a thumbrella.
June 7, 2010
bilby commented on the word humbrella
I used to workout in the rain with my dumbrella. Onlookers were speechless.
June 7, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word humbrella
A tumbrella was affixed to the tipcart, dumpcart, or other conveyance used to carry the condemned to Madam Guillotine. Just a common courtesy, as they say.
June 8, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word humbrella
The possession of a jumbrella is necessary for the preservation of one's sartorial compositions (read "get-ups") and coiffure when summer thunderstorms arrive in this part of Florida.
June 9, 2010
bilby commented on the word humbrella
I was ready to pack my suitcase today and just when I thought it was empty out tumbled a small card showing an umbrella floating in mid-air (well, mid-rain) with the words 'el paraguas' under it. That might be a tumbrella.
June 9, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word humbrella
An unencumbrella is useful for protecting oneself from dangling alliances.
June 10, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word humbrella
I assume the burnt umberella would be used by Cinderella.
June 10, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word humbrella
I'll say it since I thunk it, just this once: cumbrella = condom.
June 10, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word humbrella
We all need a perfectly good umbershoot.
June 10, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word humbrella
Don't disregard sunbrella (sunshade), gunbrella (species of concealed weapon), or the iconoclastic unbrella {naked armature that provides little shade or protection from rain).
June 10, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word humbrella
A numbrella helps one forget about the weather and get down to enjoying being out-of-doors.
June 10, 2010
frogapplause commented on the word humbrella
See also drumbrella
June 11, 2010
dontcry commented on the word humbrella
I might need a bumbrella if my bottom gets any bigger.
June 13, 2010
boyd commented on the word humbrella
An adumbrella is what's left after all the material has gone.
June 15, 2010