What is the difference between brolly and umbrella?
brolly | umbrella |
(British, NZ, Australia, informal) Umbrella.
Cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.
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*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
Generally, anything that provides protection.
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Something that covers a wide range of concepts, purposes, groups, etc.
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The main body of a jellyfish, excluding the tentacles.
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To cover or protect, as if by an umbrella.
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To form the dome shape of an open umbrella.
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To move like a sea jelly.
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Umbrella is a synonym of brolly.
As nouns the difference between brolly and umbrella
is that brolly is umbrella while umbrella is cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.As a verb umbrella is
to cover or protect, as if by an umbrella.brolly
English
Noun
(brollies)- It's going to rain today — you'd better take your brolly .