brolly
noun (a brolly, brollies), informal
Everyday
(UK, Australia, NZ, informal) An umbrella. tree →
In the lessons
Common in British and Australian everyday talk: «Take your brolly, it's going to rain!» Short for umbrella.
Examples
- Don't forget your brolly! tree →
- My brolly blew inside out in the wind. tree →
- Gran never leaves home without a brolly. tree →
- Can I share your brolly? tree →
- I left my brolly on the bus. tree →
Note
Plural: brollies. Informal; in formal writing use «umbrella». Not used much in the US.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «brolly» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «brolly» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
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