noun

• An umbrella.

  More example sentences

  • ‘Kindly remove that piece of paper from my windshield… didn't your mother ever tell you it's not wise to harass frail ‘little old ladies’ with long canes and large bumbershoots.’
  • ‘Just bring along a big bumbershoot (capable of handling two months of something called ‘heavy precipitation’).’
  • ‘That's called an umbrella, also sometimes known as a parasol or bumbershoot.’
  • ‘Brian Sostek demonstrates his patented bumbershoot fencing technique against Megan McClellan in ‘Pieces of Eight’.’

  Synonyms

  parasol, sunshade