bumbershoot
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Third, the fact that bumbershoot sort of sounds British.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2011
In the early '90s, the writers of Frasier used the notion of bumbershoot-as-Britishism to underpin this exchange between the anglophile Niles and his English crush, Daphne: Niles: Take my bumbershoot.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2011
My research has actually led me to propose a year when bumbershoot changed from U.S. regional slang to presumed Britishism: 1939.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2011
There wasn't a bumbershoot of any description on the Lyric stage.
From Time Magazine Archive
I opened my eyes, and the umbrella—or the bumbershoot, or whatever it was—had vanished.
From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate
