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jumbe
Swahili · medieval
"chief, leader"
meaning "chief" or "leader"
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Jumbo
English · 1880s
"a famous giant circus elephant"
the name given to a famously huge circus elephant, popularizing the word
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jumbo
English · 1880s-1900s
"unusually large"
generalized to describe anything unusually large
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