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单词 bumfly
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bumflyadj.

Brit. /ˈbʌmfli/, /ˈbʌmfl̩i/, U.S. /ˈbəmf(ə)li/, Scottish English /ˈbʌmflɪ/, /ˈbamflɪ/, Irish English /ˈbʌmf(ə)li/
Forms: 1800s– bumfly, 1900s– bamphly, 1900s– bumflie, 1900s– bumphly.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bumfle n., -y suffix1.
Etymology: < bumfle n. + -y suffix1.Compare Scots bumply, in the same sense (1923 or earlier), and also bumfy (of a person) untidy in appearance (1914 or earlier).
Scottish and Irish English (northern).
Of clothing, fabric, etc.: rumpled, puckered; bulging. Of a person: wearing such clothing; untidy in appearance.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > corrugation > [adjective] > wrinkled or creased > crumpled or rumpled
crumpled1535
rumpled1624
rumply1794
scrumpled1813
screwed-up1817
bumfly1887
1887 J. Service Life Dr. Duguid iii. iv. 258 He lookit..at the Abbot himsel',—awfu' kin' o' bumfly, and like a chaff bed tied in the middle.
1912 F. E. Crichton Tinker's Hollow vii. 74 I hate this dress... It's so—so bumfly!
1985 A. Blair Tea at Miss Cranston's ii. 13 Mother made us knitted petticoats... We looked all bumfly in them.
2010 @ItsLaurenAlissa 21 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 5 Sept. 2018) I never knew I was going so never got a new dress, it's just a black lacy dress and all bumfly at the bottom?
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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