bamboo

Substantiv

1. 1

   Any of the fast-growing grasses of the Bambusoideae subfamily, characterized by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem.

   However, the late Hsia and the Shang were considerably warmer, possibly comparable to Hang-chou today, an area where bamboo proliferates.

2. 2

   Wood of the bamboo plant as a material for building, furniture, etc.

3. 3

   A stick, rod, pole, or cane of bamboo, especially one used as a vessel for liquids, or as a tool for corporal punishment.

   It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered away as I walked through the village and one girl about ten or twelve years old, who had just brought a bamboo full of water from the river, threw it down with a cry of horror and alarm the moment she caught sight of me, turned around and jumped into the stream.

4. 4

   SlangA didgeridoo.

5. 5

   SlangA member of the British military or British East India Company who spent so much time in Indonesia, India, or Malaysia that they never returned home.

Adjektiv

1. 1

   Made of the wood of the bamboo.

Verb

1. 1

   To flog with a bamboo cane.

   […] the beadle is punished by fine, and sometimes bambooed, if robberies are too frequent within his jurisdiction, or if he fails to secure the person of any malefactor particularly wanted by his superior officers.

2. 2

   To paint (furniture, etc.) to give it the appearance of bamboo.

   The craze for bambooing furniture and accessories was one of many popular paint techniques in the 18th century and early Victorian era.

3. 3

   SlangTo penetrate sexually.

   If you're just a girl from Lucknow, with no fluid cash, you'll be just one more among thousands going from producer to producer by auto-rickshaw, and every photographer who agrees to take a picture for your portfolio will want to introduce you to his bed upstairs in the loft. And what you'll get out of all this in the end is a lot of bambooing and maybe a dance or two in his videos.

   One scene of attachment and intimacy shows Vijay careening into their shared apartment dead drunk and insulting a praying Ajay for his devotion to the household god, Hanuman […], saying that instead of being rescued Ajay will be "bamboo-ed," a popular slang for anal penetration.

Formen

Plural

bamboos

Präteritum

bambooed

Partizip II

bambooed

Partizip I

bambooing

3. Person Singular

bamboos