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Jumbo Mavis: Pronounced "Jumbo May-viss" Jumbo Mavis: Pronoun “Did you catch Jumbo Mavis’s show last night? Yes, I did… it was so, so.” Jumbo: Latin - denotes a large, clumsy person normally of questionable intelligence or wit. Popularised in London in the second half of the 19th century after “Jumbo” the African bush elephant who resided in a zoo in Paris, France before being exported to London Zoo and eventually sold to P.T. Barnum, noted American politician and Ring Master as a curiosity. Jumbo was by all accounts an idiot. Mavis: Mavis (see “Mavis”)