Word for the day brolly

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.. :)
 
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.
 
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:)
 


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