单词 | bumpity-bump |
释义 | bumpity-bumpv. colloquial. intransitive. To move with repeated bumps or in a bumping, jolting fashion. Also occasionally transitive: to move or propel (something) with repeated bumps.In quot. a1855 with reference to the sound of repeated impacts. ΚΠ a1855 E. Stuart-Wortley Sweet South (1856) II. xiv. 170 Did they not sound as if the poor victim was still..thump-thumping, and bumpety-bumping, with a dire, terrible force? 1913 H. C. Barnabee & G. L. Varney Reminisc. xxiv. 268 The statoo was bumpety bumped back to its sarcophagus. 1958 Spectator 14 Feb. 194/3 His plane bumpety-bumps to a standstill. 2014 L. Childs Gossamer Ghost xix. 188 Feeling real terror now, her heart bumpity-bumping. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bumpity-bumpadv. colloquial. With repeated bumps; in a bumping, jolting fashion. Also occasionally: with the sound of repeated impacts. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [adverb] > jogging or jolting to and fro or up and down jiggy-joggy1600 jig-a-jig1602 bumpity-bump1833 jig-jig1836 joltingly1843 bumpingly1854 bumpity1967 1833 Mother Goose's Melodies 95 A farmer went trotting upon his grey mare, Bumpety bumpety bump. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xxvii. 338 Souls alive, what news! It makes my heart go quite bumpity-bump! 1922 G. C. Whitney On Other Side of Bridge v. 49 Going bumpity-bump across the station, they reached the cars. 1992 C. P. Estés Women who run with Wolves v. 163 It follows right along behind us, bumpety-bump, thumpety-thump, right into our houses. 2015 Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois) (Nexis) 15 May a6 Traffic cones seem to be sprouting in the same places while drivers go bumpity-bump over roads that get overlooked. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.a1855adv.1833 |
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