English

Etymology
Probably a play on the pattern of words like fractious

Pronunciation
IPA|/�b�mp��s/
SAMPA|/'bVmpS@s/

Adjective
bumptious

1. obtrusively pushy; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme

#: the politician may have had good ideas, but he was bumptious to a fault

Quotations
#*1928, w:Virginia Woolf|Virginia Woolf, w:Orlando:_A_Biography|Orlando
#*: She could stand it no longer. It was full of pry|prying old women, she said, who stared in one's face, and of bumptious young men who trod on one's toes.

Derived terms
bumptiously
bumptiousness

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• 2007-02-02 23:06 - RobotGMwikt - robot Adding: [[io:bumptious]], [[zh:bumptious]]

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