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bumpsadaisy

bumpsadaisy interjection: used to accompany, or to apologise for, a bumping motion.

Interjection

  1. Used to accompany, or to apologise for, a bumping motion.
    • The Big Apple had been introduced that year, and Kathleen and her friends loved forming the big circle and ending with a bumpsadaisy […]1983, Lynne McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, Her Life and Times
    • […] the wild gyrations of the "Big Apple," in which everyone formed a circle and ended with a "bumpsadaisy," and the Lambeth Walk, […]1996, Sally Bedell Smith, Reflected Glory: The Life of Pamela Churchill Harriman

Origin of bumpsadaisy

Apparently related to bump and whoops-a-daisy.

Questions about bumpsadaisy

What does bumpsadaisy mean?
Bumpsadaisy means used to accompany, or to apologise for, a bumping motion.
What part of speech is bumpsadaisy?
Bumpsadaisy is an interjection.

Words near bumpsadaisy in the dictionary

  1. bumps purses
  2. bumps race
  3. bumps races
  4. bumps uglies
  5. bumps up
  6. bumpsadaisy
  7. bumpstock
  8. bumpstocks
  9. bumptious
  10. bumptiously
  11. bumptiousness

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