Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A drink made of rum, sugar, water, and nutmeg.
- noun 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 .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
drink made fromrum ,water ,sugar , andnutmeg .
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Examples
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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!
tequilamonky Diary Entry tequilamonky 2009
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Will leave you with a pic of my now hefty girl looking very Victorian with a big bumbo skirt!
tequilamonky Diary Entry tequilamonky 2009
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Yesterday I got out the bumbo chair for you to try out.
Cameron Elizabeth: 3 months old. Kat 2008
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I think you liked the new perspective of the world sitting up in your bumbo chair gave you.
Archive 2008-08-01 Kat 2008
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I think you liked the new perspective of the world sitting up in your bumbo chair gave you.
Cameron Elizabeth: 3 months old. Kat 2008
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I wondered what she was going to say next, that she wanted to chase the bumbo claat bald heads out of town.
Etan Thomas: They are Not Jealous of Our Way of Life... 2008
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Yesterday I got out the bumbo chair for you to try out.
Archive 2008-08-01 Kat 2008
madmouth commented on the word bumbo
image search suggests the meaning has changed somewhat
October 29, 2009
bilby commented on the word bumbo
*pfghrrttt!* This gum tastes like sh*t!
October 29, 2009
yarb commented on the word bumbo
"...he held up his hands, assured me he could do me no service, wished I might not be in a state of reprobation, and returned to his messmates, who were making merry in the ward-room, round a table well stored with bumbo and wine."
- Smollett, Roderick Random, 1748
May 27, 2014