bumper crop

English

WOTD – 13 January 2025

Etymology

From bumper (“(noun) thing which is particularly abundant, excellent, or large; (adjective) particularly abundant, excellent, or large”) +‎ crop, originally referring to a very large harvest of a crop.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌmpə ˌkɹɒp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌmpəɹ ˌkɹɑp/
• Hyphenation: bump‧er crop

Noun

bumper crop (plural bumper crops)

1. (idiomatic) An excess of something; a large yield.

   The kindergarten seems to have a bumper crop of new children this year.

   • 1991 February 11, Eric R. Rofes, “My Life As A Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 29, page 10:

     And then the Gay Rights Movement took over and I watched a new generation of homos coming down the assembly line. The Anita Bryant and John Briggs madness of the late '70s brought a bumper crop of new activists onto the scene who were different than the Gay Lib queers.

Translations

excess of something

• Finnish: ennätyssato
• German: Rekordernte (de) f
• Igbo: ihe ọkụkụ nke Bumper
• Japanese: 豊作 (ja) (ほうさく, hōsaku)
• Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: obfity plon m
• Russian: большо́й урожа́й m (bolʹšój urožáj), небыва́лый урожа́й m (nebyvályj urožáj)
• Spanish: cosecha abundante f, cosecha récord f, cosecha pingüe f

Further reading

• bumper crop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia