portobello
Speech parts
1. portobello - Noun
2. Portobello - Proper noun
Meaning
A suburb of Dublin, Ireland.
portobello (plural portobellos)
The large, mature form of the crimini mushroom (Agaricus bisporus)
An area in Birtley, Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2755).
A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9597).
A coastal suburb in Edinburgh, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3073).
A village on Otago Harbour, South Island, New Zealand.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgSynonyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like,"A vegetarian's coming to dinner," so they serve those.
I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.
At the beginning of 1928 he lived in lodgings in Portobello Road from where he started his tramping expeditions, sleeping rough and roaming in the poorer parts of London.
At a recent training workshop I led for the Tribe Women entrepreneurial community in Portobello, a show of hands indicated that a third of participants had left a job due to unresolved conflict and around a quarter having taken no steps to resolve that.
Spot the Duke of Kent’s granddaughter shopping for vintage dresses on Portobello Road, under a tipi at Glastonbury or painting ceramics in her west London home.
Cops also shut down raves that broke out across London last night, including one at an estate in South Kilburn and another on Portobello Road in Notting Hill.