Jumboorigin

2023年1月31日—Thenameisperhapsfromslangjumboclumsy,unwieldyfellow(1823),whichitselfispossiblyfromawordforelephantinaWestAfrican ...,Thegiantelephant'snamespawnedthecommonwordjumbo,meaninglargeinsize.Examplesofhislexicalimpactarephraseslikejumbojet,jumboshrimp, ...,JumboisasupermarketchainintheNetherlandsandBelgium.ItispartoftheprivatelyownedVanEerdGroup.VanEerdwasoriginallyagrocerywholesale .....

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Etymology of jumbo by etymonline

2023年1月31日 — The name is perhaps from slang jumbo clumsy, unwieldy fellow (1823), which itself is possibly from a word for elephant in a West African ...

Jumbo

The giant elephant's name spawned the common word jumbo, meaning large in size. Examples of his lexical impact are phrases like jumbo jet, jumbo shrimp, ...

Jumbo (supermarket)

Jumbo is a supermarket chain in the Netherlands and Belgium. It is part of the privately owned Van Eerd Group. Van Eerd was originally a grocery wholesale ...

jumbo

Etymology 1 edit ... From Jumbo (1860–1885), the name given to a large African elephant from East Africa that was purchased in 1882 by American showman P. T. ...

Jumbo Definition & Meaning

2023年10月17日 — Word History ; Etymology. Jumbo, a huge elephant exhibited by P. T. Barnum ; First Known Use. 1883, in the meaning defined above ; Time Traveler.

JUMBO Definition & Usage Examples

Origin of jumbo. 1. C19: after the name of a famous elephant exhibited by P. T. Barnum, from Swahili jumbe chief.

Jumbo The Elephant

Jumbo the African elephant arrived in London in 1865. While the origin of the name is uncertain, his Sudanese handler may have named him after the Swahili word ...

Where the Word "Jumbo" Came From

2015年2月19日 — While nobody is exactly sure when Jumbo was born, it's believed that he was captured as a young calf in 1860 somewhere in East Africa after his ...