bumper

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈbʌmpə/    美 /ˈbʌmpəɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone or something that bumps.
  2. A drinking vessel filled to the brim. obsolete
    — [T]hey now shook hands heartily, and drank bumpers of strong beer to healths which we think proper to bury in oblivion.
  3. Anything large or successful. attributive,colloquial
  4. Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision; fender.
  5. Any mechanical device used to absorb an impact, soften a collision, or protect against impact.
    — The company sells screw-on rubber bumpers and feet.
  6. A bouncer.
  7. A side wall of a pool table.
  8. A cylindrical object used (as a substitute for birds) to train dogs to retrieve.
  9. A short ditty or jingle used to separate a show from the advertisements.
  10. A covered house at a theatre, etc., in honour of some favourite performer. dated,slang
  11. A woman's posterior, particularly one that is considered full and desirable. Caribbean,Jamaica,slang
  12. 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.
  13. An object on a playfield that applies force to the pinball when hit, often giving a minor increase in score.
  14. A cigarette butt. Australia,slang
  15. In National Hunt racing, a flat race for horses that have not yet competed either in flat racing or over obstacles.
  16. A shoulder button on a gamepad.
  17. Synonym of gutter guard (“rail to prevent a ball from rolling into the gutter”).
动词 v.
  1. To drink from the vessels called bumpers. intransitive,obsolete
形容词 adj.
  1. Wonderfully large; (as if) filled to the bumpers at the top of a silo, or successful in this regard. colloquial,not-comparable
    — a bumper collection of silly jokes

词形变化

bumpers plural bumpers present,singular,third-person bumpering participle,present bumpered participle,past bumpered past

词汇关系

衍生词
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

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
词源 3
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.
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