plural bumbershoots
Definition of bumbershoot
US, informal
: umbrella sense 1
Mr. Whifflebottom shifted to his other arm the long black bumbershoot he carried ever with him, against the rain that seldom came, even as he wore always knee-high rubber boots for the same reason.— Harry Stephen Keeler A bumbershoot is exactly the same as an umbrella, but it's a much better word. The bumber bit is a variant of brolly, and the shoot is there because it looks a little bit like a parachute.— Mark Forsyth … the sort of writer who won't say umbrella when he can say bumbershoot.— Malcolm Jones
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The first known use of bumbershoot was in 1876
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