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# brolly

«brolly» in Mova's school dictionary: **An umbrella** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a brolly, brollies), informal

### meaning for a pupil

(UK, Australia, NZ, informal) An umbrella. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brolly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Common in British and Australian everyday talk: «Take your brolly, it's going to rain!» Short for umbrella.

### examples

- Don't forget your brolly! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brolly/#x1)
- My brolly blew inside out in the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brolly/#x2)
- Gran never leaves home without a brolly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brolly/#x3)
- Can I share your brolly? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brolly/#x4)
- I left my brolly on the bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brolly/#x5)

### note

Plural: brollies. Informal; in formal writing use «umbrella». Not used much in the US.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brolly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brolly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.