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juvember

juvember noun: a slingshot.

Noun

juvember (plural juvembers)

  1. (North Carolina Lumbee dialect) A slingshot.
    • […] and that said section be further amended so as to include and make it unlawful for any person to use sling juvembers or other contrivance by which to throw or project rocks, pebbles, shot or other missiles.1889, Laws and Resolutions of the State of North Carolina, chapter 194, section 6, page 857
    • Your issue of February, 1975 has a photo (see cut) and caption by Erwin D. Stephens describing this longish beanshooter as a "juvember." Please fill me in on the derivation of "juvember." At first glance it appears to be a synthetic word, a contraction of either June or July and either November or...1978, Roy Wilder, a letter in The State (North Carolina magazine), volume 46, page 5

Proper noun capitalized: Juvember

Juvember

  1. (US, informal) A fictional month of the year, used as sarcasm or a joke to mean that something will never happen or never take place.
    • All of this work will take from now to Juvember!

Forms of juvember

pluraljuvembers

Origin of juvember

Blend of June + November.

Questions about juvember

What does juvember mean?
Juvember means a slingshot.
What part of speech is juvember?
Juvember can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of juvember?
The plural of juvember is juvembers.

Words near juvember in the dictionary

  1. Juupajoki
  2. Juv.
  3. juvabione
  4. Juvavian
  5. juve
  6. juvember
  7. juvembers
  8. juvenal
  9. juvenalia
  10. Juvenalian
  11. juvenals

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