bumposophern.
/bʌmˈpɒsəfə/, U.S. /ˌbəmˈpɑsəfər/ humorous. rare (now historical).
An expert in the pseudoscientific study of bumps on the skull; a phrenologist. Cf. bumpologist n.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > faculty psychology > psychological study of the skull > [noun] > practitioner of
cranioscopist1809
craniologist1815
phrenologist1815
bumpologist1824
turnipologist1824
bumposopher1836
phrenologer1846
1836 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 40 33 The most redoubtable bumposopher that ever discoursed.
2012 ‘P. J. Caruthers’ Style & Circumstance i. 20 A pig, a bumposopher, a knave.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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