Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bumper crop

/ˈbʌmpəɹ ˌkɹɑp/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English

Syllables: bump-er crop
IPA: /ˈbʌmpəɹ ˌkɹɑp/

20

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An excess of something; a large yield.

Example Sentences

"The kindergarten seems to have a bumper crop of new children this year."
"And then the Gay Rights Movement took over and I watched a new generation of homos coming down the assembly line. The Anita Bryant and John Briggs madness of the late '70s brought a bumper crop of new activists onto the scene who were different than the Gay Lib queers."

Etymology

From bumper (“(noun) thing which is particularly abundant, excellent, or large; (adjective) particularly abundant, excellent, or large”) + crop, originally referring to a very large harvest of a crop.

Word Breakdown

Root: *grewbʰ-

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈbʌmpəɹ ˌkɹɑp/
British English: /ˈbʌmpə ˌkɹɒp/

Inflected Forms

bumper crops (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce bumper crop?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbʌmpəɹ ˌkɹɑp/.
What does bumper crop mean?: An excess of something; a large yield.
Where does bumper crop come from?: From bumper (“(noun) thing which is particularly abundant, excellent, or large; (adjective) particularly abundant, excellent, or large”) + crop, originally referring to a very large harvest of a crop.

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