bumpery
bumpery adjective: synonym of bumpy (“having or involving bumps”).
Adjective
bumpery (comparative more bumpery, superlative most bumpery)
- Synonym of bumpy (“having or involving bumps”).
- My neighbors’ children play with me. / They come for me to ease their woes, / Bleedery stumpings of the toes, / Splinters in fingers, at whose base / Angels have left their kissery trace; / Skinned elbows and such bruisery rings, / Or bumpery dots from wood bees’ stings.1917, The Christian Advocate, volume XCII, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 559, column 1
- The bushes were long, dry, tall, skinny, scraggly things, twisting and bending like dancers over hot coals, then running up on long bumpery limbs to grab a thin fistful of free sky.1947–1948 (date written), Woody Guthrie, “Study Butte”, in Seeds of Man: An Experience Lived and Dreamed, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., published 1976, →ISBN, page 176
- Synonyms:
- bumpy
Noun
bumpery (uncountable)
- Bumping.
- At each station of his cross, he was forced into a state of bumpery with so many backs and fronts.1982, Michael Seide, chapter 15, in The Common Wilderness, [Brooklyn, N.Y.]: Fiction Collective, →ISBN, page 550
- Upon entering, we were greeted with the sight of Tynee leaping across the sofa from Miss Mary. […] General Kiljoy wagged his finger at Tynee, shaking his head in mock disapproval at their bumpery.2001, Tony Vigorito, chapter 77, in Just a Couple of Days, Columbus, Oh.: Bast Books, →ISBN, page 173
Examples of bumpery in a sentence
- Nowadays Malindo road getting too very bumpery, isn’t it, vee all-the-time complaining Regional Engineer but Mr.1971, David Bee, The Victims, Johannesburg: Macmillan South Africa, →OCLC, page 49:
- ‘Ooh, Flipip,’ came Baby B’s muffled voice from inside the rucksack, ‘it’s millions bumpery in here.1986, Nigel Hinton, chapter 8, in Run to Beaver Towers (Andersen Young Readers’ Library; Beaver Towers, 3), London: Andersen Press, →ISBN...
- We’ve now spent eight years watching Republican congressmen scurrying hither and thither brandishing pitchforks, outraged at the latest whiff of terrorist fist-bumpery.2016 September 4, Hari Kunzru, “The [Barack] Obama years: novelists assess his legacy”, in The New Review (The Observer), London, →ISSN...
Synonyms of bumpery
Forms of bumpery
| comparative | more bumpery |
|---|---|
| superlative | most bumpery |
Origin of bumpery
From bump + -ery (adjectival suffix).
From bump + -ery.
Questions about bumpery
- What does bumpery mean?
- Bumpery means synonym of bumpy (“having or involving bumps”).
- How do you use bumpery in a sentence?
- Nowadays Malindo road getting too very bumpery, isn’t it, vee all-the-time complaining Regional Engineer but Mr.
- What part of speech is bumpery?
- Bumpery can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near bumpery in the dictionary
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