jumbon.

Brit.

/ˈdʒʌmbəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈdʒəmboʊ/

Etymology: Of uncertain origin: possibly the second element in mumbo-jumbo n., a name applied (in English since the 18th cent.) to a West African divinity or bogy.

a. A big clumsy person, animal, or thing; popularized, esp., as the individual name of an elephant, famous for its size, in the London Zoological Gardens, subsequently sold in February 1882 to Barnum; whence applied to an individual that is big of its kind or to a person of great skill or success.

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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > an exceptionally large thing of its kind

swinger1599

rapper1653

thumper1660

whisker1668

spanker1751

slapper1781

whopper1785

skelper1790

smasher1794

pelter1811

swapper1818

jumbo1823

sneezer1823

whacker1825

whanger1825

infant1832

bulger1835

three-decker1835

bouncer1842

snorter1859

whalera1860

plonker1862

bruiser1868

snapper1874

plumper1881

boomer1885

heavy1897

sollicker1898

sanakatowzer1903

Moby Dicka1974

stonker1987

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > skilful person > exceptionally skilled person

wizard1620

virtuoso1682

jumbo1823

ace1840

crackerjack1895

mivvy1906

whizz1914

whizzo1977

1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang Jumbo, a clumsy or unwieldly fellow.

1846 Knickerbocker Mag. 27 511 Take the helm and bear away for that jumbo... And so we walk up to the ‘jumbo’, an old-time schooner.

1883 Harper's Mag. Oct. 705/2 It is the Jumbo of crickets, and just as black.

18.. Music & Drama X. ii. 9 The combined successes of that jumbo of successful business men.

1892 R. Kipling & W. Balestier Naulahka xviii. 212 She's a Jumbo at theory, but weak in practice.

b. Engineering. Any of various large types of equipment used in drilling, lifting, dumping, etc.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > [noun] > large

jumbo1908

1908 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 7 Nov. 11/3 Nearest the portal was the ‘jumbo’, a great, movable platform through which the ‘muckers’ dumped their barrow-loads to cars beneath.

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Jumbo,..a large traveling carriage for transporting excavated material, as in tunnel driving.

1950 Engineering 10 Mar. 264/3 The method is well illustrated in the Stockholm tunnel, using a truck-mounted jumbo.

1951 Engineering 12 Jan. 34/2 The concrete was placed from a travelling frame or ‘jumbo’, as it is termed in American practice. This straddled the pipe and travelled on rails laid in an excavated trench.

c. (See quot. 1948.)

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set on a stay > jib or sail set on forestay > types of

marabut1622

flying jib1711

storm-jiba1827

spitfire-jib1858

jib topsail1866

reaching foresail1901

reacher1903

jumbo1912

Yankee1912

Yankee jib1912

Genoa1932

Genoa jib1932

slave1934

quad1937

slave jib1948

masthead genoa1958

1912 Outing Aug. 629/2 The pilot schooners when lying at their stations, the sail carried being jumbo or forestaysail, foresail, and reefed mainsail.

1916 F. W. Wallace Shack Locker (1922) i. 22 Slack off that jumbo an' the foresheet!

1927 Canad. Fisherman 141/2 A gigantic sea boarded the vessel and broke about fifteen feet up the jumbo stay.

1932 J. Barbour Forty-eight Days Adrift vii. 94 ‘Hard, down hard,’ I cried; ‘haul over the jumbo sheet. If we are not careful we will all be lost this time.’

1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 377/1 Jumbo (U.S.). 1. The forestaysail on fore-and-aft-rigged vessels. 2. A triangular sail which sets, point downward, on the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel or a topsail schooner in place of the regular foresail.

1956 A. F. Loomis ‘Hotspur’ Story x. 117 The weather looked a little threatening and I set the jumbo and storm jib.

d. Short for jumbo jet n. at Compounds 2.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > with jet engine(s) > types of

superjet1945

twin-jet1946

fan-jet1963

jumbo jet1964

jump jet1964

jumbo1966

super-jumbo1968

tri-jet1968

stretch plane1971

stretch1973

wide-body1979

1966 New Statesman 22 Apr. 591/2 The competitors..need only a small handful of jumbos..on the popular long-distance routes.

1966 New Statesman 22 Apr. 591/2 A rival jumbo designed by Douglas.

1971 Daily Tel. 8 Jan. (Colour Suppl.) 15/4 A collision between two jumbos on the approaches to Heathrow could produce a deathroll of thousands.

1972 H. Osborne Pay-day iii. xiii. 154 They can't get him on a plane before tonight. They want someone to go down on the Jumbo today.

1973 Guardian 12 Mar. 10/4 Jumbo~loads of Soviet immigrants.

1974 Observer 29 Sept. (Colour Suppl.) 65/1 The visitors who disembarked from our jumbo at Kai Tak Airport.

2. Trade-name for a shade of grey, like that of an elephant.

ΚΠ

1882 Philadelphia Evening Star 2 May ‘Jumbo’ is a new gray hue.

3. A board for raising cockles, etc. out of the sand.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > other fishing equipment > [noun] > cockle-board

jumbo1886

1886 Westmorland Gaz. 18 Dec. A ‘jumbo’ was a piece of wood used for the purpose of raising cockles and other similar fish out of the sand.

Compounds

C1. attributive used to distinguish things of very large size.

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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective]

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serious1843

jumboesque1893

jumbo1897

economy-sized1930

L1942

jumbo-size1949

economy size1950

1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 12/2 Peaches, Jumbo California, halves.

1916 Amer. City Apr. 373/1 Large jumbo peanuts were bought, instead of culls.

1940 S. Lewis Bethel Merriday i. 19 The three children..supped on a jumbo malted milk.

1958 Daily Express 1 Apr. 1/4 You and your jumbo Martinis!!

1965 Teacher's World 18 June 5/4 The shelves of the local supermarket are full of ‘king-sized’, ‘giant economy’ and ‘jumbo’ packages.

1973 Sun 18 Jan. 6 The Prime Minister handled his jumbo Press conference amid the splendour of Lancaster House with poise and style.

C2.

jumboburger n. U.S. a large hamburger.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > hamburger

quarter-pounder1847

Hamburg steak1884

Hamburger1889

Salisbury steak1897

cheeseburgerc1930

nutburger1934

Wimpy1935

burger1939

lamburger1939

beefburger1940

sausage-burger1942

Sloppy Joe1942

turtleburger1946

mooseburger1948

jumboburger1959

Big Mac1969

soy burger1973

slider1974

soya burger1974

1959 Observer 8 Nov. 3/5 We can expect the kind of hamburger proliferation that exists in America, with beefburgers, eggburgers, cheeseburgers, jumbo burgers, superior ‘Hamburger Heavens’.

1964 Punch 15 July 79/3 The silly girl spends most of her time eating jumboburgers.

jumbo jet n. a large jet aeroplane with a seating capacity of several hundred passengers.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > with jet engine(s) > types of

superjet1945

twin-jet1946

fan-jet1963

jumbo jet1964

jump jet1964

jumbo1966

super-jumbo1968

tri-jet1968

stretch plane1971

stretch1973

wide-body1979

1964 Economist 19 Dec. 1317/2 Some..airlines do not expect..an American supersonic airliner ever to go into production. Jumbo-jets, with 500 seats and two decks,..look much cheaper to fly.

1965 Business Weekly 25 Dec. 31 Nosing into the Jumbo jet race: Lockheed, Boeing and Douglas.

1969 Listener 13 Nov. 683/3 They can replace two flights on conventional aircraft with a single jumbo jet flight.

1970 Drum (Johannesburg) Feb. (E. Afr. ed.) 31/3 This airport will be capable of handling jumbo jets and is ideally situated in the heart of the safari country.

jumbo plait n. a plait of an inch wide.

ΚΠ

1900 Westm. Gaz. 27 Nov. 7/2 Near 250 yards of dark blue and white ‘jumbo’ plait were used.

jumbo-size adj. (also jumbo-sized) of a large size.

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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective]

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mickleeOE

greateOE

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large-sized1628

roomly1682

lumping?1706

maun1743

strapping1827

barn door1829

serious1843

jumboesque1893

jumbo1897

economy-sized1930

L1942

jumbo-size1949

economy size1950

1949 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 2 Apr. 116/3 Davis..is a jumbo-sized (six feet two, 202 pounds) man of forty-six.

1960 Guardian 9 Sept. 8/4 The jumbo-sized plastic bone.

1968 ‘R. Raine’ Night of Hawk xxvii. 126 The meal was avocado salad, a jumbo-size steak, and a mountain of ice cream.

1972 J. Rossiter Rope for General Dietz iii. 34 The shrill rasping of a jumbo-size cicada..woke me.

Derivatives

(from sense 1.)

jumboˈesque n. Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective]

unlittleeOE

mickleeOE

greateOE

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mainc1275

boldc1300

fadec1330

largec1392

tallc1430

big1444

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grand1452

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fine1590

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large-sized1628

roomly1682

lumping?1706

maun1743

strapping1827

barn door1829

serious1843

jumboesque1893

jumbo1897

economy-sized1930

L1942

jumbo-size1949

economy size1950

1893 Westm. Gaz. 18 Mar. 4/1 A ‘Jumboesque monster’—a machine ‘in which the beauty of outline has been swallowed up in ponderosity.

jumboˈesqueness n. Apparently an isolated use.

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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > hugeness

hugenessc1380

monstruousness1545

huginess1559

immanity1586

immenseness1610

immensity1652

enormity1792

colossality1800

enormousness1802

prodigiousness1832

gianthood1841

titanism1851

hugeousness1859

vastitude1876

jumboesqueness1882

monumentality1884

stupendiosity1912

1882 Punch 11 Mar. 113 If Nature to one of my stature Gave such..Jumboesqueness.

ˈjumboism n. Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1900 Westm. Gaz. 16 Aug. 7/1 Those who have a dislike of ‘jumboism’, whether in finance or otherwise.

jumboˈmania n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > an exceptionally large thing of its kind > favouring of or desire for large things

jumbomania1891

1891 Rev. of Reviews 15 Sept. 289/2 The Musical Times' article on ‘Jumbomania’.

1899 Spectator 21 Oct. 569/2 ‘Jumbomania’,..the worship of mammoth dimensions.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	jumbo
释义	jumbon. Brit. /ˈdʒʌmbəʊ/, U.S. /ˈdʒəmboʊ/ Etymology: Of uncertain origin: possibly the second element in mumbo-jumbo n., a name applied (in English since the 18th cent.) to a West African divinity or bogy. 1. a. A big clumsy person, animal, or thing; popularized, esp., as the individual name of an elephant, famous for its size, in the London Zoological Gardens, subsequently sold in February 1882 to Barnum; whence applied to an individual that is big of its kind or to a person of great skill or success. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > an exceptionally large thing of its kind swinger1599 rapper1653 thumper1660 whisker1668 spanker1751 slapper1781 whopper1785 skelper1790 smasher1794 pelter1811 swapper1818 jumbo1823 sneezer1823 whacker1825 whanger1825 infant1832 bulger1835 three-decker1835 bouncer1842 snorter1859 whalera1860 plonker1862 bruiser1868 snapper1874 plumper1881 boomer1885 heavy1897 sollicker1898 sanakatowzer1903 Moby Dicka1974 stonker1987 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > skilful person > exceptionally skilled person wizard1620 virtuoso1682 jumbo1823 ace1840 crackerjack1895 mivvy1906 whizz1914 whizzo1977 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang Jumbo, a clumsy or unwieldly fellow. 1846 Knickerbocker Mag. 27 511 Take the helm and bear away for that jumbo... And so we walk up to the ‘jumbo’, an old-time schooner. 1883 Harper's Mag. Oct. 705/2 It is the Jumbo of crickets, and just as black. 18.. Music & Drama X. ii. 9 The combined successes of that jumbo of successful business men. 1892 R. Kipling & W. Balestier Naulahka xviii. 212 She's a Jumbo at theory, but weak in practice. b. Engineering. Any of various large types of equipment used in drilling, lifting, dumping, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > [noun] > large jumbo1908 1908 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 7 Nov. 11/3 Nearest the portal was the ‘jumbo’, a great, movable platform through which the ‘muckers’ dumped their barrow-loads to cars beneath. 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Jumbo,..a large traveling carriage for transporting excavated material, as in tunnel driving. 1950 Engineering 10 Mar. 264/3 The method is well illustrated in the Stockholm tunnel, using a truck-mounted jumbo. 1951 Engineering 12 Jan. 34/2 The concrete was placed from a travelling frame or ‘jumbo’, as it is termed in American practice. This straddled the pipe and travelled on rails laid in an excavated trench. c. (See quot. 1948.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set on a stay > jib or sail set on forestay > types of marabut1622 flying jib1711 storm-jiba1827 spitfire-jib1858 jib topsail1866 reaching foresail1901 reacher1903 jumbo1912 Yankee1912 Yankee jib1912 Genoa1932 Genoa jib1932 slave1934 quad1937 slave jib1948 masthead genoa1958 1912 Outing Aug. 629/2 The pilot schooners when lying at their stations, the sail carried being jumbo or forestaysail, foresail, and reefed mainsail. 1916 F. W. Wallace Shack Locker (1922) i. 22 Slack off that jumbo an' the foresheet! 1927 Canad. Fisherman 141/2 A gigantic sea boarded the vessel and broke about fifteen feet up the jumbo stay. 1932 J. Barbour Forty-eight Days Adrift vii. 94 ‘Hard, down hard,’ I cried; ‘haul over the jumbo sheet. If we are not careful we will all be lost this time.’ 1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 377/1 Jumbo (U.S.). 1. The forestaysail on fore-and-aft-rigged vessels. 2. A triangular sail which sets, point downward, on the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel or a topsail schooner in place of the regular foresail. 1956 A. F. Loomis ‘Hotspur’ Story x. 117 The weather looked a little threatening and I set the jumbo and storm jib. d. Short for jumbo jet n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > with jet engine(s) > types of superjet1945 twin-jet1946 fan-jet1963 jumbo jet1964 jump jet1964 jumbo1966 super-jumbo1968 tri-jet1968 stretch plane1971 stretch1973 wide-body1979 1966 New Statesman 22 Apr. 591/2 The competitors..need only a small handful of jumbos..on the popular long-distance routes. 1966 New Statesman 22 Apr. 591/2 A rival jumbo designed by Douglas. 1971 Daily Tel. 8 Jan. (Colour Suppl.) 15/4 A collision between two jumbos on the approaches to Heathrow could produce a deathroll of thousands. 1972 H. Osborne Pay-day iii. xiii. 154 They can't get him on a plane before tonight. They want someone to go down on the Jumbo today. 1973 Guardian 12 Mar. 10/4 Jumbo~loads of Soviet immigrants. 1974 Observer 29 Sept. (Colour Suppl.) 65/1 The visitors who disembarked from our jumbo at Kai Tak Airport. 2. Trade-name for a shade of grey, like that of an elephant. ΚΠ 1882 Philadelphia Evening Star 2 May ‘Jumbo’ is a new gray hue. 3. A board for raising cockles, etc. out of the sand. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > other fishing equipment > [noun] > cockle-board jumbo1886 1886 Westmorland Gaz. 18 Dec. A ‘jumbo’ was a piece of wood used for the purpose of raising cockles and other similar fish out of the sand. Compounds C1. attributive used to distinguish things of very large size. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] unlittleeOE mickleeOE greateOE mucha1154 mainc1275 boldc1300 fadec1330 largec1392 tallc1430 big1444 masterfula1450 grand1452 largy1558 fine1590 bonnya1600 large-sized1628 roomly1682 lumping?1706 maun1743 strapping1827 barn door1829 serious1843 jumboesque1893 jumbo1897 economy-sized1930 L1942 jumbo-size1949 economy size1950 1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 12/2 Peaches, Jumbo California, halves. 1916 Amer. City Apr. 373/1 Large jumbo peanuts were bought, instead of culls. 1940 S. Lewis Bethel Merriday i. 19 The three children..supped on a jumbo malted milk. 1958 Daily Express 1 Apr. 1/4 You and your jumbo Martinis!! 1965 Teacher's World 18 June 5/4 The shelves of the local supermarket are full of ‘king-sized’, ‘giant economy’ and ‘jumbo’ packages. 1973 Sun 18 Jan. 6 The Prime Minister handled his jumbo Press conference amid the splendour of Lancaster House with poise and style. C2. jumboburger n. U.S. a large hamburger. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > hamburger quarter-pounder1847 Hamburg steak1884 Hamburger1889 Salisbury steak1897 cheeseburgerc1930 nutburger1934 Wimpy1935 burger1939 lamburger1939 beefburger1940 sausage-burger1942 Sloppy Joe1942 turtleburger1946 mooseburger1948 jumboburger1959 Big Mac1969 soy burger1973 slider1974 soya burger1974 1959 Observer 8 Nov. 3/5 We can expect the kind of hamburger proliferation that exists in America, with beefburgers, eggburgers, cheeseburgers, jumbo burgers, superior ‘Hamburger Heavens’. 1964 Punch 15 July 79/3 The silly girl spends most of her time eating jumboburgers. jumbo jet n. a large jet aeroplane with a seating capacity of several hundred passengers. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > with jet engine(s) > types of superjet1945 twin-jet1946 fan-jet1963 jumbo jet1964 jump jet1964 jumbo1966 super-jumbo1968 tri-jet1968 stretch plane1971 stretch1973 wide-body1979 1964 Economist 19 Dec. 1317/2 Some..airlines do not expect..an American supersonic airliner ever to go into production. Jumbo-jets, with 500 seats and two decks,..look much cheaper to fly. 1965 Business Weekly 25 Dec. 31 Nosing into the Jumbo jet race: Lockheed, Boeing and Douglas. 1969 Listener 13 Nov. 683/3 They can replace two flights on conventional aircraft with a single jumbo jet flight. 1970 Drum (Johannesburg) Feb. (E. Afr. ed.) 31/3 This airport will be capable of handling jumbo jets and is ideally situated in the heart of the safari country. jumbo plait n. a plait of an inch wide. ΚΠ 1900 Westm. Gaz. 27 Nov. 7/2 Near 250 yards of dark blue and white ‘jumbo’ plait were used. jumbo-size adj. (also jumbo-sized) of a large size. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] unlittleeOE mickleeOE greateOE mucha1154 mainc1275 boldc1300 fadec1330 largec1392 tallc1430 big1444 masterfula1450 grand1452 largy1558 fine1590 bonnya1600 large-sized1628 roomly1682 lumping?1706 maun1743 strapping1827 barn door1829 serious1843 jumboesque1893 jumbo1897 economy-sized1930 L1942 jumbo-size1949 economy size1950 1949 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 2 Apr. 116/3 Davis..is a jumbo-sized (six feet two, 202 pounds) man of forty-six. 1960 Guardian 9 Sept. 8/4 The jumbo-sized plastic bone. 1968 ‘R. Raine’ Night of Hawk xxvii. 126 The meal was avocado salad, a jumbo-size steak, and a mountain of ice cream. 1972 J. Rossiter Rope for General Dietz iii. 34 The shrill rasping of a jumbo-size cicada..woke me. Derivatives (from sense 1.) jumboˈesque n. Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] unlittleeOE mickleeOE greateOE mucha1154 mainc1275 boldc1300 fadec1330 largec1392 tallc1430 big1444 masterfula1450 grand1452 largy1558 fine1590 bonnya1600 large-sized1628 roomly1682 lumping?1706 maun1743 strapping1827 barn door1829 serious1843 jumboesque1893 jumbo1897 economy-sized1930 L1942 jumbo-size1949 economy size1950 1893 Westm. Gaz. 18 Mar. 4/1 A ‘Jumboesque monster’—a machine ‘in which the beauty of outline has been swallowed up in ponderosity. jumboˈesqueness n. Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > hugeness hugenessc1380 monstruousness1545 huginess1559 immanity1586 immenseness1610 immensity1652 enormity1792 colossality1800 enormousness1802 prodigiousness1832 gianthood1841 titanism1851 hugeousness1859 vastitude1876 jumboesqueness1882 monumentality1884 stupendiosity1912 1882 Punch 11 Mar. 113 If Nature to one of my stature Gave such..Jumboesqueness. ˈjumboism n. Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1900 Westm. Gaz. 16 Aug. 7/1 Those who have a dislike of ‘jumboism’, whether in finance or otherwise. jumboˈmania n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > an exceptionally large thing of its kind > favouring of or desire for large things jumbomania1891 1891 Rev. of Reviews 15 Sept. 289/2 The Musical Times' article on ‘Jumbomania’. 1899 Spectator 21 Oct. 569/2 ‘Jumbomania’,..the worship of mammoth dimensions. 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