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jum·bo
Audio Help [juhm-boh] Pronunciation Key noun, plural -bos, adjective Informal.
Audio Help [juhm-boh] Pronunciation Key noun, plural -bos, adjective Informal. –noun
–adjective
| 1. | a very large person, animal, or thing. |
| 2. | jumbo jet. |
| 3. | U.S. Nautical.
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| 4. | very large: the jumbo box of cereal. |
[Origin: 1800–10; orig. uncert.; popularized as the name of a large elephant purchased and exhibited by P.T. Barnum in 1882
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jumbo
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| jum·bo
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n. pl. jum·bos An unusually large person, animal, or thing. adj. Unusually large: jumbo shrimp; a jumbo jet. [After Jumbo, a large elephant exhibited by P.T. Barnum, probably from slang, clumsy person.] |
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jumbo (adj.)
"very large," 1897, Amer.Eng., in ref. to Jumbo, name of the London Zoo's huge elephant, sold Feb. 1882 to U.S. circus showman P.T. Barnum. The name is probably from slang jumbo "clumsy, unwieldy fellow" (1823), which itself is possibly from a word for "elephant" in a W.African language (cf. Kongo nzamba).
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| jumbo | |
adjective | |
| of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp" [syn: elephantine] |
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