Definition of bumptious in English:

bumptious

adjectiveˈbʌm(p)ʃəsˈbəm(p)ʃəs

Irritatingly self-assertive.
an impossibly bumptious and opinionated ass
Example sentencesExamples
- And the authorities can't be fooled into making bumptious statements because they're all media-savvy now.
- He was rude, aggressive, invasive and just about as bumptious a little man as it's ever been my misfortune to meet.
- Personally I deal with bumptious chuckleheads with attitudes like this every day.
- This bumptious charlatan then presumes to lecture others on issues of morality and governance.
- Can I say that about content on my own site without sounding bumptious?
- We may be perky and bumptious and relatively youthful, but a lot of us are quite tired of working.
- No, that was an era full of bumptious government employees and crazed moralistic zealots forever threatening to incarcerate the peasantry, largely on some kind of trumped up charge or other.
- In fact, they seem determined to recreate the bawdy, bumptious atmosphere of a redneck boozer.
- Buster will be in Edinburgh again this year, more bumptious than ever, because the bestseller - as well as being translated into German, French, Italian and Magyar - is now available in Japanese.
- At the time of Britpop, he appeared just another brash and bumptious pop star with plenty of flash and attitude.
- He came as a bumptious outsider to the Alberta Tories but soon elbowed his way to the top, winning the leadership as a rookie MP.
- He is, accordingly, by turns bumptious, diffident, selfish, generous, thoughtless, befuddled and acute.
- How he could let these bumptious bimbos into his home to slag off and chuck out most of his wardrobe is a mystery to me.
- And even if Mozart was an often bumptious prankster, I cannot buy Shaffer's unhinged buffoon, especially when Michael Sheen, camping sky-high, is disgraceful in the early clownish sequences and creepy in the later pathetic ones.
- When the bill arrived at one table of four, one particularly bumptious oaf grabbed it, held it aloft, and started braying to his companions: ‘Guess how much!’
- To me it also leaves open whether he actually did think it was a good book but didn't want to sound bumptious.
- This bumptious bloke is either a nonentity or is likely to be a nuisance - never heard of his name among the boss's acquaintances.
- I followed my climbing partner, a bumptious 56-year-old Catholic priest from Glasgow, Scotland, up our fourth alpine face in three days.
- And the Jersey driver remains a prominent folk devil all over the Northeast: bumptious, heedless, hostile and barely competent.
- Graeme Kent tells the story of how more than 30 fighters - the Great White Hopes, though most of them were no more than second-rate brawlers - who tried to dump the bumptious champion on his backside only to suffer that fate themselves.
Synonyms
self-important, conceited, arrogant, self-assertive, full of oneself, puffed up, swollen-headed, pompous, overbearing, (self-)opinionated, cocky, swaggering, strutting, presumptuous, forward, imperious, domineering, pontificating, sententious, grandiose, affected, stiff, vain, haughty, overweening, proud, egotistic, egotistical
supercilious, condescending, patronizing
informal snooty, uppity, uppish, pushy

Derivatives

bumptiously

adverbˈbʌmpʃəsliˈbəm(p)ʃəsli

This is bumptiously funky, respectably organic and engaging music that truly aspires to get young children excited about jazz.
Example sentencesExamples
- One of the real dangers the BJP Government has created is the rise of intolerant and bellicose people who bumptiously air their views.
- I do not think that ever again has that hopeful, almost bumptiously hopeful, atmosphere reappeared in this country.
- They also acted their parts as classically as the admirable comedians interfered bumptiously with all the sobriety, and Phillip Addis must be commended for his singing as well.
- They disported themselves bumptiously, like they were aces.

bumptiousness

nounˈbʌmpʃəsnəsˈbəm(p)ʃəsnəs

Englishmen, however, increasingly viewed the rapidly developing ‘Great Republic of the West’ with the pride of a parent mixed with annoyance at the adolescent's bumptiousness.
Example sentencesExamples
- Churchill was a survivor from that earlier age of adventure who never fossilised, and what he breathed over his comrades - bumptiousness, energy, sometimes alcohol, sometimes deathless words - was always charged with life.
- For Luciano is full of the bumptiousness of the man, and tries just as hard to please.
- His letters display both the bumptiousness and self-integrity which got him kicked out of Cuba and Prague.
- This is often accompanied, in drink, by a strutting, swaggering bumptiousness.

Origin

Early 19th century: humorously from bump, on the pattern of fractious.

Rhymes

scrumptious

Definition of bumptious in US English:

bumptious

adjectiveˈbəm(p)SHəsˈbəm(p)ʃəs

Self-assertive or proud to an irritating degree.
these bumptious young boys today
Example sentencesExamples
- And the authorities can't be fooled into making bumptious statements because they're all media-savvy now.
- I followed my climbing partner, a bumptious 56-year-old Catholic priest from Glasgow, Scotland, up our fourth alpine face in three days.
- When the bill arrived at one table of four, one particularly bumptious oaf grabbed it, held it aloft, and started braying to his companions: ‘Guess how much!’
- In fact, they seem determined to recreate the bawdy, bumptious atmosphere of a redneck boozer.
- He is, accordingly, by turns bumptious, diffident, selfish, generous, thoughtless, befuddled and acute.
- This bumptious charlatan then presumes to lecture others on issues of morality and governance.
- Graeme Kent tells the story of how more than 30 fighters - the Great White Hopes, though most of them were no more than second-rate brawlers - who tried to dump the bumptious champion on his backside only to suffer that fate themselves.
- He was rude, aggressive, invasive and just about as bumptious a little man as it's ever been my misfortune to meet.
- Can I say that about content on my own site without sounding bumptious?
- And the Jersey driver remains a prominent folk devil all over the Northeast: bumptious, heedless, hostile and barely competent.
- To me it also leaves open whether he actually did think it was a good book but didn't want to sound bumptious.
- Buster will be in Edinburgh again this year, more bumptious than ever, because the bestseller - as well as being translated into German, French, Italian and Magyar - is now available in Japanese.
- At the time of Britpop, he appeared just another brash and bumptious pop star with plenty of flash and attitude.
- He came as a bumptious outsider to the Alberta Tories but soon elbowed his way to the top, winning the leadership as a rookie MP.
- This bumptious bloke is either a nonentity or is likely to be a nuisance - never heard of his name among the boss's acquaintances.
- Personally I deal with bumptious chuckleheads with attitudes like this every day.
- How he could let these bumptious bimbos into his home to slag off and chuck out most of his wardrobe is a mystery to me.
- We may be perky and bumptious and relatively youthful, but a lot of us are quite tired of working.
- No, that was an era full of bumptious government employees and crazed moralistic zealots forever threatening to incarcerate the peasantry, largely on some kind of trumped up charge or other.
- And even if Mozart was an often bumptious prankster, I cannot buy Shaffer's unhinged buffoon, especially when Michael Sheen, camping sky-high, is disgraceful in the early clownish sequences and creepy in the later pathetic ones.
Synonyms
self-important, conceited, arrogant, self-assertive, full of oneself, puffed up, swollen-headed, pompous, overbearing, opinionated, self-opinionated, cocky, swaggering, strutting, presumptuous, forward, imperious, domineering, pontificating, sententious, grandiose, affected, stiff, vain, haughty, overweening, proud, egotistic, egotistical

Origin

Early 19th century: humorously from bump, on the pattern of fractious.

单词	bumptious
释义	Definition of bumptious in English: bumptious adjectiveˈbʌm(p)ʃəsˈbəm(p)ʃəs Irritatingly self-assertive. an impossibly bumptious and opinionated ass Example sentencesExamples And the authorities can't be fooled into making bumptious statements because they're all media-savvy now. He was rude, aggressive, invasive and just about as bumptious a little man as it's ever been my misfortune to meet. Personally I deal with bumptious chuckleheads with attitudes like this every day. This bumptious charlatan then presumes to lecture others on issues of morality and governance. Can I say that about content on my own site without sounding bumptious? We may be perky and bumptious and relatively youthful, but a lot of us are quite tired of working. No, that was an era full of bumptious government employees and crazed moralistic zealots forever threatening to incarcerate the peasantry, largely on some kind of trumped up charge or other. In fact, they seem determined to recreate the bawdy, bumptious atmosphere of a redneck boozer. Buster will be in Edinburgh again this year, more bumptious than ever, because the bestseller - as well as being translated into German, French, Italian and Magyar - is now available in Japanese. At the time of Britpop, he appeared just another brash and bumptious pop star with plenty of flash and attitude. He came as a bumptious outsider to the Alberta Tories but soon elbowed his way to the top, winning the leadership as a rookie MP. He is, accordingly, by turns bumptious, diffident, selfish, generous, thoughtless, befuddled and acute. How he could let these bumptious bimbos into his home to slag off and chuck out most of his wardrobe is a mystery to me. And even if Mozart was an often bumptious prankster, I cannot buy Shaffer's unhinged buffoon, especially when Michael Sheen, camping sky-high, is disgraceful in the early clownish sequences and creepy in the later pathetic ones. When the bill arrived at one table of four, one particularly bumptious oaf grabbed it, held it aloft, and started braying to his companions: ‘Guess how much!’ To me it also leaves open whether he actually did think it was a good book but didn't want to sound bumptious. This bumptious bloke is either a nonentity or is likely to be a nuisance - never heard of his name among the boss's acquaintances. I followed my climbing partner, a bumptious 56-year-old Catholic priest from Glasgow, Scotland, up our fourth alpine face in three days. And the Jersey driver remains a prominent folk devil all over the Northeast: bumptious, heedless, hostile and barely competent. Graeme Kent tells the story of how more than 30 fighters - the Great White Hopes, though most of them were no more than second-rate brawlers - who tried to dump the bumptious champion on his backside only to suffer that fate themselves. Synonyms self-important, conceited, arrogant, self-assertive, full of oneself, puffed up, swollen-headed, pompous, overbearing, (self-)opinionated, cocky, swaggering, strutting, presumptuous, forward, imperious, domineering, pontificating, sententious, grandiose, affected, stiff, vain, haughty, overweening, proud, egotistic, egotistical supercilious, condescending, patronizing informal snooty, uppity, uppish, pushy Derivatives bumptiously adverbˈbʌmpʃəsliˈbəm(p)ʃəsli This is bumptiously funky, respectably organic and engaging music that truly aspires to get young children excited about jazz. Example sentencesExamples One of the real dangers the BJP Government has created is the rise of intolerant and bellicose people who bumptiously air their views. I do not think that ever again has that hopeful, almost bumptiously hopeful, atmosphere reappeared in this country. They also acted their parts as classically as the admirable comedians interfered bumptiously with all the sobriety, and Phillip Addis must be commended for his singing as well. They disported themselves bumptiously, like they were aces. bumptiousness nounˈbʌmpʃəsnəsˈbəm(p)ʃəsnəs Englishmen, however, increasingly viewed the rapidly developing ‘Great Republic of the West’ with the pride of a parent mixed with annoyance at the adolescent's bumptiousness. Example sentencesExamples Churchill was a survivor from that earlier age of adventure who never fossilised, and what he breathed over his comrades - bumptiousness, energy, sometimes alcohol, sometimes deathless words - was always charged with life. For Luciano is full of the bumptiousness of the man, and tries just as hard to please. His letters display both the bumptiousness and self-integrity which got him kicked out of Cuba and Prague. This is often accompanied, in drink, by a strutting, swaggering bumptiousness. Origin Early 19th century: humorously from bump, on the pattern of fractious. Rhymes scrumptious Definition of bumptious in US English: bumptious adjectiveˈbəm(p)SHəsˈbəm(p)ʃəs Self-assertive or proud to an irritating degree. these bumptious young boys today Example sentencesExamples And the authorities can't be fooled into making bumptious statements because they're all media-savvy now. I followed my climbing partner, a bumptious 56-year-old Catholic priest from Glasgow, Scotland, up our fourth alpine face in three days. When the bill arrived at one table of four, one particularly bumptious oaf grabbed it, held it aloft, and started braying to his companions: ‘Guess how much!’ In fact, they seem determined to recreate the bawdy, bumptious atmosphere of a redneck boozer. He is, accordingly, by turns bumptious, diffident, selfish, generous, thoughtless, befuddled and acute. This bumptious charlatan then presumes to lecture others on issues of morality and governance. Graeme Kent tells the story of how more than 30 fighters - the Great White Hopes, though most of them were no more than second-rate brawlers - who tried to dump the bumptious champion on his backside only to suffer that fate themselves. He was rude, aggressive, invasive and just about as bumptious a little man as it's ever been my misfortune to meet. Can I say that about content on my own site without sounding bumptious? And the Jersey driver remains a prominent folk devil all over the Northeast: bumptious, heedless, hostile and barely competent. To me it also leaves open whether he actually did think it was a good book but didn't want to sound bumptious. Buster will be in Edinburgh again this year, more bumptious than ever, because the bestseller - as well as being translated into German, French, Italian and Magyar - is now available in Japanese. At the time of Britpop, he appeared just another brash and bumptious pop star with plenty of flash and attitude. He came as a bumptious outsider to the Alberta Tories but soon elbowed his way to the top, winning the leadership as a rookie MP. This bumptious bloke is either a nonentity or is likely to be a nuisance - never heard of his name among the boss's acquaintances. Personally I deal with bumptious chuckleheads with attitudes like this every day. How he could let these bumptious bimbos into his home to slag off and chuck out most of his wardrobe is a mystery to me. We may be perky and bumptious and relatively youthful, but a lot of us are quite tired of working. No, that was an era full of bumptious government employees and crazed moralistic zealots forever threatening to incarcerate the peasantry, largely on some kind of trumped up charge or other. And even if Mozart was an often bumptious prankster, I cannot buy Shaffer's unhinged buffoon, especially when Michael Sheen, camping sky-high, is disgraceful in the early clownish sequences and creepy in the later pathetic ones. Synonyms self-important, conceited, arrogant, self-assertive, full of oneself, puffed up, swollen-headed, pompous, overbearing, opinionated, self-opinionated, cocky, swaggering, strutting, presumptuous, forward, imperious, domineering, pontificating, sententious, grandiose, affected, stiff, vain, haughty, overweening, proud, egotistic, egotistical Origin Early 19th century: humorously from bump, on the pattern of fractious.
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