Etymology tree
English bump
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English bumper
From bump + -er.
Meanings
(colloquial, not-comparable) Wonderfully large; (as if) filled to the bumpers at the top of a silo, or successful in this regard.
What a bumper year for apples!
a bumper collection of silly jokes
We harvested a bumper crop of arugula and parsnips this year.
"I see I must bribe you to harbour me—come, pledge me in a bumper health to the last young lady that slept at Wolf's Crag, and liked her quarters.—My bones are not so tender as hers, and I am resolved to occupy her apartment tonight, that I may judge how hard the couch is that love can soften." 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume II (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
Translations (7)
fi runsas (colloquial: large) · nl groot (colloquial: large) · es récord (colloquial: large) · nl immens (colloquial: large) · nl vol (colloquial: large) · es abundante (colloquial: large) · bg пълен догоре (colloquial: large)
Etymology tree
English bump
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English bumper
From bump + -er.
Meanings
Someone or something that bumps.
A drinking vessel filled to the brim.
Pour, oh, pour the pirate sherry; / Fill, O fill the pirate glass; / And, to make us more than merry, / Let the pirate bumper pass. 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, The Pirates of Penzance […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published 1880, →OCLC:
Mr. Horrocks served myself and my pupils with three little glasses of wine, and a bumper was poured out for my lady. 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 8, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
Sydney Carton drank the punch at a great rate; drank it by bumpers, looking at his friend. 1859, Charles Dickens, chapter XI, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
[T]hey now shook hands heartily, and drank bumpers of strong beer to healths which we think proper to bury in oblivion. 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
Yet can I gulp a bumper to thy name,— / O smile among the shades, for this is fame! 1818, John Keats, Written in the cottage where Burns was born:
Pork ſucceeds to Beef, Pies to Puddings: The Cloth is remov'd, Madam, drench'd vvith a Bumper, drops a Courtſey, and departs; […] 1756 February 3 (first performance), Samuel Foote, The Englishman Return’d from Paris, Being the Sequel to The Englishman in Paris. A Farce […], London: […] Paul Vaillant, […], published 1756, →OCLC, Act I, page 27:
(attributive, colloquial) Anything large or successful.
Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision; fender.
Any mechanical device used to absorb an impact, soften a collision, or protect against impact.
The company sells screw-on rubber bumpers and feet.
A bouncer.
A side wall of a pool table.
A cylindrical object used (as a substitute for birds) to train dogs to retrieve.
A short ditty or jingle used to separate a show from the advertisements.
(dated, slang) A covered house at a theatre, etc., in honour of some favourite performer.
(Caribbean, Jamaica, slang) A woman's posterior, particularly one that is considered full and desirable.
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.
(qualifier:pinball) An object on a playfield that applies force to the pinball when hit, often giving a minor increase in score.
(Australia, slang) A cigarette butt.
In National Hunt racing, a flat race for horses that have not yet competed either in flat racing or over obstacles.
A shoulder button on a gamepad.
Synonym of gutter guard (“rail to prevent a ball from rolling into the gutter”).
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Etymology tree
English bump
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English bumper
From bump + -er.
Meanings
(intransitive, obsolete) To drink from the vessels called bumpers.