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单词 bumptious
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bumptiousadj.

Brit. /ˈbʌm(p)ʃəs/, U.S. /ˈbəm(p)ʃəs/
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bump n.2, bump v.1, -tious suffix.
Etymology: Apparently a humorous formation < either bump n.2 or bump v.1 + -tious suffix, after e.g. fractious adj. Compare later gumptious adj.
Irritatingly self-assertive or conceited.
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the mind > emotion > pride > self-assertiveness > [adjective]
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1801 F. Burney Let. 1 Sept. in Jrnls. & Lett. (1973) IV. 503 I must tell them, as you do me, not to be bumptious!
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 36 The bumptious serjeant struts before his men..And look as big as if King George himsen.
1857 J. C. Maxwell Let. 22 Dec. in L. Campbell & W. Garnett Life J. C. Maxwell (1882) x. 295 Buckle's History of Civilisation—a bumptious book, strong positivism, emancipation from exploded notions, and that style of thing.
1929 Travel Jan. 50/2 That eternal scapegrace of the humorous writer, the ill-bred and bumptious rich American tourist.
1968 G. Daws Shoal of Time iv. 149 Lathrop and his fellow conspirator, the lawyer J. D. Blair, continued to be bumptious.
2011 Daily Tel. 18 Nov. 29/3 The bumptious lawyers and trade union hacks who are so generously represented in our own legislature.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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