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bumpity

bumpity interjection: nonce variation of the word bump, usually indicating the sound of someone or something tumbling down an uneven surface, or traveling on a rough road.

Interjection

  1. Nonce variation of the word bump, usually indicating the sound of someone or something tumbling down an uneven surface, or traveling on a rough road.
    • "There he goes!" cried his delighted master, throwing down the poker and snapping his fingers in an ecstasy — "Bumpity bump! bumpity bump! Hope he won't stop at the landing-place — no — off again! All stone steps!1833, Horace Smith, Gale Middleton: A Story of the Present Day, page 229
    • Daria closed her eyes, exhaling slow smoke through her nostrils, listening to the bumpity sound of wheels on the polished cobblestone unevenness of the street.1998, R. Kiernan, chapter 1, in Silk

Examples of bumpity in a sentence

  • The rhythmic bumpity, bumpity, bumpity bump of a pissed academic with arthritic knees falling down the stairs, ricocheting between wall and banister as he went.2002, Marian Keyes, Under the Duvet, page 193:
  • Bang, bang, bumpity bump, I hear as spruce cones fall on the metal roofing of my woodshed.2011, Amy Seidl, Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming:

Origin of bumpity

From bump + -ity.

Questions about bumpity

What does bumpity mean?
Bumpity means nonce variation of the word bump, usually indicating the sound of someone or something tumbling down an uneven surface, or traveling on a rough road.
How do you use bumpity in a sentence?
The rhythmic bumpity, bumpity, bumpity bump of a pissed academic with arthritic knees falling down the stairs, ricocheting between wall and banister as he went.
What part of speech is bumpity?
Bumpity is an interjection.

Words near bumpity in the dictionary

  1. bumpingly
  2. bumpings
  3. Bumpit
  4. Bumpits
  5. Bumpitt
  6. bumpity
  7. bumpkin
  8. bumpkinet
  9. bumpkinets
  10. bumpkinish
  11. bumpkinism

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