This week's Bajanism - Duppy umbrella

I know what you're about to say, but you're wrong, I haven't done this one already. It was suggested to me by a guest star we had over at the house of T over the weekend, and as she so rightfully pointed out, is a true bajanism whereas the term "duppy" is found throughout the caribbean. So here we go---


Pronunciation: \ˈdʌpɪ\ˌəm-ˈbre-lə\

Function : noun

Etymology: Caribbean: Barbados

Definition:

1: The term "duppy umbrella" is often, but not exclusively, applied to poisonous mushrooms or to those that have the classic umbrella-like cap-and-stem form. Between 1400 and 1600 A.D., the terms tadstoles, frogstooles, frogge stoles, tadstooles, tode stoles, toodys hatte, paddockstool, puddockstool, paddocstol, toadstoole, and paddockstooles sometimes were used synonymously with mushrom, mushrum, muscheron, mousheroms, mussheron, or musserouns

(definition actually sourced via wikiworldorder)