bumptious 的定义
- offensively self-assertive: a bumptious young upstart.
bumptious 近义词
offensively self-assertive
更多bumptious例句
- Bumptious little man, and yet—and yet there's something in him.
- The court was thrown into amazement, and even Bumptious quailed before the fist of the mighty Jorrocks.
- She was always—not exactly proud like, but what I calls Bumptious.
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Where does bumptious come from?
For as fun as the word bumptious sounds, its meaning is more forceful. Bumptious is recorded in the late 1790s and is a blend of bump and fractious, meaning “unruly” or “irritable.” Bumptious bumps fractious up to the next level, meaning “offensively self-assertive.”
Many more amusing Americanisms await in our slideshow “These Wacky Words Originated In The USA.”