subs. (West Indian).—1.  The female pudendum: a negro term: see MONOSYLLABLE.

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  2.  (old).—A liquor, composed of rum, sugar, water, and nutmeg (SMOLLETT); brandy, water, and sugar (GROSE).

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  1748.  SMOLLETT, Roderick Random, xxxiv; Who were making merry in the wardroom, round a table well stored with BUMBO and wine.

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  1756.  Diary of a Sussex Tradesman, in Sussex Archaeological Collections, IX., 188, quoted in Notes and Queries, 7, i., 194. 1756, April 28. We drank one bowl of punch and two muggs of BUMBOO.

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  1882.  Northumbrian Minstrelsy, etc., 113, quoted in Notes and Queries, 7, i., 195.

        The pitmen and the keelmen trim,
They drink BUMBO made of gin.

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