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In Suisei no Gargantia's second episode, Gargantians, out of the blue, start
referring to Chamber as either "Yunboroid" or "Yunboro".

Where did they get this name from? Was it some type of 'model' name or
something that Led told them? Or is it something they came up with?

Either way, what exactly does it mean?


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Why do Gargantians call Chamber "Yunboroid" or "Yunboro"?


The correct romanization is probably "Yumboroid." The word is probably a
portmanteau of "yumbo" and "droid."

Yumbo was a French trademark name of excavators, now [used in
Japanese](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9C) to refer
to excavators in general (much like
[dumpsters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpster) in America, which was the
trademark name for a mobile garbage bin).


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