bumbershoot
/ˈbʌmbəɹˌʃut/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.80 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It smells like rain. Perhaps we should take along a bumbershoot."
- "Oh! Hang the bumbershoot! [Flings umbrella away, clasps Mrs. Dobbs wildly.]"
- "Little drops of water / It is safe to bet / If you have no bumbershoot, / Make you doosid wet."
- ""It—it belongs in our family," said Button-Bright, beginning to eat and speaking between bites. "This umbrella has been in our family years, an' years, an' years. 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.""
- "Two women pickets, Krkossa and Menefee, walked the picket line in front of the Respondent's studio for 1½ hours on 1 day carrying large old-fashioned men's umbrella (perhaps better described by the word "bumbershoots") thereby, according to the Respondent's theory, committing serious strike misconduct by interfering with pedestrian traffic in front of the Respondent's studio, by preventing others on the street or sidewalk from reading advertising material painted on the approximately 50-foot expanse of windows of the Respondent's building facing upon the street, and by reason of the hazard allegedly created of physical damage to passing pedestrians from the ribs of said bumbershoots."
- "Nick Fury. Hey, Percy! Get that blasted umbrella outta my ribs!! / Percy Pinkerton. I beg your par … Oh! You mean my bumbershoot!"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbʌmbəɹˌʃut/
- British English: /ˈbʌmbəˌʃuːt/