bumper
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: automotive
ball-games
billiards
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cricket
entertainment
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hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
media
music
pets
racing
sports
transport
vehicles
video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bump
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English bumper
From bump + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: bumpers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that bumps.
pos: noun
gloss: A drinking vessel filled to the brim.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: [T]hey now shook hands heartily, and drank bumpers of strong beer to healths which we think proper to bury in oblivion.
Pork ſucceeds to Beef, Pies to Puddings: The Cloth is remov'd, Madam, drench'd vvith a Bumper, drops a Courtſey, and departs; […]
Yet can I gulp a bumper to thy name,— / O smile among the shades, for this is fame!
Mr. Horrocks served myself and my pupils with three little glasses of wine, and a bumper was poured out for my lady.
Sydney Carton drank the punch at a great rate; drank it by bumpers, looking at his friend.
Pour, oh, pour the pirate sherry; / Fill, O fill the pirate glass; / And, to make us more than merry, / Let the pirate bumper pass.
gloss: Anything large or successful.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
colloquial
gloss: Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision; fender.
pos: noun
gloss: Any mechanical device used to absorb an impact, soften a collision, or protect against impact.
pos: noun
examples: The company sells screw-on rubber bumpers and feet.
gloss: A bouncer.
pos: noun
gloss: A side wall of a pool table.
pos: noun
gloss: A cylindrical object used (as a substitute for birds) to train dogs to retrieve.
pos: noun
gloss: A short ditty or jingle used to separate a show from the advertisements.
pos: noun
gloss: A covered house at a theatre, etc., in honour of some favourite performer.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
gloss: A woman's posterior, particularly one that is considered full and desirable.
pos: noun
tags: Caribbean
Jamaica
slang
gloss: An extra musician (not notated in the score) who assists the principal French horn by playing less-exposed passages, so that the principal can save their 'lip' for difficult solos. Also applied to other sections of the orchestra.
pos: noun
gloss: An object on a playfield that applies force to the pinball when hit, often giving a minor increase in score.
pos: noun
gloss: A cigarette butt.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
gloss: In National Hunt racing, a flat race for horses that have not yet competed either in flat racing or over obstacles.
pos: noun
gloss: A shoulder button on a gamepad.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of gutter guard (“rail to prevent a ball from rolling into the gutter”).
pos: noun
gloss: Wonderfully large; (as if) filled to the bumpers at the top of a silo, or successful in this regard.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
examples: a bumper collection of silly jokes
What a bumper year for apples!
We harvested a bumper crop of arugula and parsnips this year.
"I see I must bribe you to harbour me—come, pledge me in a bumper health to the last young lady that slept at Wolf's Crag, and liked her quarters.—My bones are not so tender as hers, and I am resolved to occupy her apartment tonight, that I may judge how hard the couch is that love can soften."
Derived words: bumper bar
bumper bullet
bumper car
bumper crop
bumperette
bumperfish
bumper jack
bumper music
bumper pool
bumper-sticker
bumper sticker
bumper to bumper
bumper-to-bumper
donut bumper
doughnut bumper
front bumper
meteor bumper
ride one's bumper
rubber baby buggy bumper
taco bumper
Translations:
lang: Western Apache
word: biyedaa’
lang: Arabic
word: مِصَدّ
roman: miṣadd
lang: Armenian
word: բամպեր
roman: bamper
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bamper
lang: Belarusian
word: ба́мпер
roman: bámpjer
lang: Belarusian
word: ба́мпэр
roman: bámper
lang: Bulgarian
word: бро́ня
roman: brónja
lang: Burmese
word: ဘန်ပါ
roman: bhanpa
lang: Catalan
word: para-xocs
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 保險杠
roman: bǎoxiǎngāng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 緩衝器 /缓冲器
roman: huǎnchōngqì
lang: Czech
word: nárazník
lang: Danish
word: kofanger
lang: Danish
word: stødfanger
lang: Dutch
word: bumper
lang: Estonian
word: põrkeraud
lang: Estonian
word: kaitseraud
lang: Finnish
word: puskuri
lang: French
word: pare-chocs
lang: Georgian
word: ბამპერი
roman: bamṗeri
lang: German
word: Stoßstange
lang: Greek
word: προφυλακτήρας
roman: profylaktíras
lang: Hebrew
word: פָּגוֹשׁ
roman: pagósh
lang: Hindi
word: बम्पर
roman: bampar
lang: Hungarian
word: lökhárító
lang: Italian
word: paraurti
lang: Japanese
word: バンパー
roman: banpā
lang: Kazakh
word: бампер
roman: bamper
lang: Khmer
word: ក្បាំងឡាន
roman: kbang laan
lang: Korean
word: 범퍼
roman: beompeo
lang: Kyrgyz
word: бампер
roman: bamper
lang: Lao
word: ກັນຊົນ
roman: kan son
lang: Latvian
word: bamperis
lang: Lithuanian
word: bamperis
lang: Macedonian
word: одбојник
roman: odbojnik
lang: Macedonian
word: браник
roman: branik
lang: Māori
word: pākaituki
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: støtfanger
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: støytfanger
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: støytfangar
lang: Persian
word: سپر
roman: separ
lang: Polish
word: zderzak
lang: Portuguese
word: para-choque
lang: Portuguese
word: para-choques
lang: Romanian
word: bară de protecție
lang: Russian
word: ба́мпер
roman: bámper
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: о̀дбо̄јнӣк
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бра̀нӣк
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: òdbōjnīk
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: brànīk
lang: Slovak
word: nárazník
lang: Slovene
word: odbijač
lang: Slovene
word: odbojnik
lang: Spanish
word: parachoques
lang: Spanish
word: bómper
lang: Spanish
word: búmper
lang: Spanish
word: defensa
lang: Spanish
word: paragolpes
lang: Spanish
word: paragolpe
lang: Swedish
word: kofångare
lang: Swedish
word: stötfångare
lang: Tajik
word: сипар
roman: sipar
lang: Tajik
word: бампер
roman: bamper
lang: Thai
word: กันชน
roman: gan-chon
lang: Turkish
word: tampon
lang: Ukrainian
word: ба́мпер
roman: bámper
lang: Urdu
word: بمپر
roman: bampar
lang: Uzbek
word: bamper
lang: Vietnamese
word: hãm xung
lang: Vietnamese
word: đỡ va