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say it: BUHM-pur
bumper is a noun meaning "a glass filled to the brim (especially as a toast)". It is pronounced /ˈbʌmpɚ/ — BUHM-pur. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle to absorb shock and prevent serious damage
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bumper come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.