Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An unusually large person, animal, or thing.
- adjective Unusually large.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A very large individual of its kind or class.
- noun In the West Indies, same as
mumbo-jumbo . In the form jumby it is used in various compounds. - noun Any large, cumbersome machine; in particular, a home-made windmill built for lifting water for irrigation on the Great Plains.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any object which is a very large example of its class.
- adjective Very large.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Especially
large orpowerful . - noun An especially large or powerful person, animal or thing.
- noun A popular name for an
elephant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of great mass; huge and bulky
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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David Wondrich, an American cocktail historian, speculated in Esquire magazine that it may have been named after P.T. Barnum's famous elephant, which gave rise to the word jumbo as a synonym for huge.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed BEPPI CROSARIOL 2011
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He says, flatly, that the jumbo is the greatest big-game animal on earth, and that he loved to hunt them.
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He says, flatly, that the jumbo is the greatest big-game animal on earth, and that he loved to hunt them.
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If you have what they call a jumbo loan, you could get help from the economic stimulus package.
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This rambling mumbo jumbo is beyond irrational, to say the least.
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My take on all this macro mumbo jumbo is we have ourselves a good working market in terms of valuation and volatility.
Gimme Baidu And Junk Bonds For This Market Martin T. Sosnoff 2010
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My take on all this macro mumbo jumbo is we have ourselves a good working market in terms of valuation and volatility.
Gimme Baidu And Junk Bonds For This Market Martin T. Sosnoff 2010
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Used to obsequious mumbo-jumbo from the Japanese political class, these critics apparently found it hard to swallow the straight talk about America's shortcomings as an economic model or about the relative decline of American power noted in the essay.
Nathan Gardels: Lost in Syndication: The Case of the Hatoyama Essay 2009
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It refuses to accept that religious mumbo-jumbo is not our authority.
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Those logophiles and trivia buffs among us might be interested in the origin of the word jumbo, as in the term mortgage professionals use to describe large loans over $417,000.
Frugal In Virginia 2008
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