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bumbershoot

Syllables: bum·ber·shootUK/ˈbʌmbəˌʃuːt//ˈbʌmbəɹˌʃut/

bumbershoot noun: an umbrella.

bumbershoot: an umbrella
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Noun

bumbershoot (plural bumbershoots)

  1. (humorous, slang) An umbrella.
    • It smells like rain. Perhaps we should take along a bumbershoot.
    • Oh! Hang the bumbershoot! [Flings umbrella away, clasps Mrs. Dobbs wildly.]1887, Olivia Lovell Wilson, “Left. A Railroad Episode.”, in Parlor Varieties: Part Three: Plays, Pantomimes, and Charades, Boston, Mass.: Lee and Shepard; New York, N.Y.: Charles T. Dillingham...
    Synonyms:
    brolly, gamp

bumbershoot meaning in Tamil and Bengali

bumbershoot in Tamil

குடை

bumbershoot in Bengali

ছাতা

Examples of bumbershoot in a sentence

  • Little drops of water / It is safe to bet / If you have no bumbershoot, / Make you doosid wet.1891 March 21, “From the New Mother Goose”, in Brooklyn Life: A Journal of Society, Literature, Drama & the Clubs, volume III, number 55...
  • But it was tucked away up in our attic an' no one ever used it 'cause it wasn't pretty." / "Don't blame 'em much," remarked Cap'n Bill, gazing at it curiously; "it's a pretty old-lookin' bumbershoot."1912, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Magic Umbrella”, in Sky Island […], 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp, Clark Co., →OCLC, page 25:
  • Me ol' bamboo, me ol' bamboo / You'd better never bother with me ol' bamboo. / You can have me hat or me bumbershoot / But you'd better never bother with me ol' bamboo.1968, Richard Morton Sherman, Robert Bernard Sherman, “Me Ol’ Bamboo”, in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Original Cast Soundtrack, performed by...
  • Where— and somebody stole my bumbershoot!1970 December 11, Ken Anderson et al., The Aristocats, spoken by Napoleon (Pat Buttram), Glendale, Calif.: Walt Disney Productions, →OCLC:

Synonyms of bumbershoot

Forms of bumbershoot

pluralbumbershoots
alternative formbumberchute
alternative formbumberschutz

Origin of bumbershoot

Probably from bumber + shoot, modifications of umbr(ella) + (para)chute. Compare umbershoot.

Questions about bumbershoot

What does bumbershoot mean?
Bumbershoot means an umbrella.
What is bumbershoot in Tamil?
Bumbershoot in Tamil is குடை. See Bumbershoot meaning in Tamil.
How do you use bumbershoot in a sentence?
Little drops of water / It is safe to bet / If you have no bumbershoot, / Make you doosid wet.
What part of speech is bumbershoot?
Bumbershoot is a noun.
How do you pronounce bumbershoot?
Bumbershoot is pronounced /ˈbʌmbəˌʃuːt/ (UK).
What is the plural of bumbershoot?
The plural of bumbershoot is bumbershoots.

Words near bumbershoot in the dictionary

  1. bumbees
  2. bumbelo
  3. bumbelos
  4. Bumberrah
  5. Bumberry
  6. bumbershoot
  7. bumbershoots
  8. Bumbești-Jiu
  9. Bumbești-Pițic
  10. bumble
  11. bumble along

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bumbershoot (page history and authors); bumbershoot (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bumbershoot (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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