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Definition of Bumbo
1. a drink mixed from gin, water, sugar and nutmeg [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bumbo
Literary usage of Bumbo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India: With a Tour in Bundelcund, a by Charles James C. Davidson (1843)
"... sporting country—The Mahaseer, or great head—Camp of bumbo Khan—Start for ...
of bumbo Khan—High cultivation—An Indian town on the Ganges—Singular style ..."
2. Sketches of the Irish Bar by Richard Lalor Sheil, Robert Shelton Mackenzie (1854)
"bumbo had an action, which was to be tried before Chief Baron O'Grady ...
bumbo had espied the capture which Ned Hickman had made of his favorite counsel. ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1854)
"When bumbo GREEN went to the coach-office, he found all the inside seats occupied,
... bumbo GREEN, fike nearly all verv stout men whom I bave ever known, ..."
4. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1898)
"605). between bumbo and Bruco ; fl. and fr. at the same time on the same individual
shrubs but without leaves, Oct. 1859. No. 4194. ..."
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