Friday, January 10, 2014

Bumptious

bumptious     Use Bumptious in a sentence bump·tious  [buhmp-shuhs]   adjective offensively self-assertive: a bumptious young upstart. Origin:  1795–1805; bump + (frac)tious  Related forms bump·tious·ly, adverb bump·tious·ness, noun o·ver·bump·tious, adjective o·ver·bump·tious·ly, adverb o·ver·bump·tious·ness, noun

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