A very large person or thing.
Some think it's comes from "mumbo jumbo" , and others think it is from the popularization of the word by Jumbo the elephant when the London Zoo sold him to PT Barnum. The London zookeeper named him probably based on Swahili words jambe or jamba. Worth a read up on this incredible creature and fun word. I once worked on 2 projects at Microsoft code named Dumbo n Jumbo.
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by eberntson » Sun Sep 23, 2012 9:23 am
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Fear less, hope more;
eat less, chew more;
whine less, breathe more;
talk less, say more,
and all good things will be yours.
--R. Burns
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Re: jumbo
by Philip Hudson » Tue Sep 25, 2012 1:11 am
My vote is on the elephant. We have a lot of inexact references to size in English. I like humongous best for great size and itsy-bitsy for small things.
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Re: jumbo
by Philip Hudson » Tue Sep 25, 2012 12:05 pm
One could drop the s but then the baby's song, "Itsy bitsy spider" would not sound nearly so cute.
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