Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An umbrella.
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- noun dated, humorous An
umbrella .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Word of the day from the good Capt'n Sparrow: "bumbershoot"
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I am suddenly in love with the word 'bumbershoot'.
Even in a little thing gillpolack 2005
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A "bumbershoot" is defined as an umbrella - and many business owners say it's protecting the local economy under it.
KOMO News - News 2010
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Nearly every store on this wholesale strip between Sixth and Seventh avenues, it turns out, carries the notorious bumbershoot.
'An Awful, Awful Thing' Anne Kadet 2011
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Worry not, for I am armed with my deadly bumbershoot to stave off all the mashers of my unsolicited arsenal of verbose thoughts.
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TBD bumbershoot – september 4 – 6, seattle, washington
summer festival rundown | Free People Clothing Boutique Blog 2010
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TBD bumbershoot – september 4 – 6, seattle, washington
summer festival rundown | Free People Clothing Boutique Blog 2010
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January 24th, 2009 @ 1:40 PM daily agenda, music the walkmen, at bumbershoot this summer photo by josh flickr
weekend agenda: saturday night live music | Seattle Metblogs 2009
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February 2nd, 2009 @ 3:00 PM sports roller derby in key arena, bumbershoot 2006
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Never mind that he later temporized this statement, and that his wife seemed to imply that after a few hours of ecstasy she was practically begging him to rush back into the studio and come up with more words to rhyme with "clover" and "bumbershoot."
edwardvielmetti commented on the word bumbershoot
a funny word for umbrella, though this Swedish Chef video hints at it also being another name for blunderbuss: http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2007/04/definitive_answ.html
April 28, 2007
reesetee commented on the word bumbershoot
Funny, EV--around my area it's bumpershoot (with a "p" in place of the second "b." :-)
April 29, 2007
slumry commented on the word bumbershoot
Seattle has an annual arts festival called Bumbershoot,
July 12, 2007
oroboros commented on the word bumbershoot
See brolly.
August 21, 2009
dontcry commented on the word bumbershoot
We say bumbershoot -- well, mostly my parents do, who are from Western PA.
October 11, 2009
qms commented on the word bumbershoot
It sure sounds posh, does bumbershoot,
But I hear it springs from a humble root.
It's gentle mocking
Of John Bull talking.
It's a way for Yanks to cock a snoot.
March 13, 2014