Word for the day brolly

[Josiah]

brolly



[brol-ee]
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noun, plural brollies. British Informal.

1.an umbrella.

 

[hollydolly]

Yup that's what almost everyone here calls an Umbrella.. very commonly used British slang word for Umbrella

When it's raining we go out wearing our wellies ( galoshes or rubber boots to you) and carrying our brolly..

 

[Ameriscot]

Aye. And I get blank looks when I say in the US!

 

[Vivjen]

I never realised it was a British word!

 

[Josiah]

HollyDolly's Brolly. Sounds like the title of a children's book.

 

[Cookie]

brolly used in Vancouver, B.C., also bumbershoot for umbrella. Not heard it in Ontario

 

[oakapple]

my grandparents always called a brolly a GAMP. Only discovered when older that it's from Dickens, a character called Sarah, or Sairey, Gamp, a disreputable midwife, always drunk and always carrying a battered old brolly.

 

[hollydolly]

HollyDolly's Brolly. Sounds like the title of a children's book.

haha that's funny...but yet true it does doesn't it?

 

[GeorgiaXplant]

My grandmother called it a bumbershoot.

Hollydolly's Brolly a children's book. I already have a picture in my mind's eye of the artwork