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What (who) is bumptious - definition
bumptious
a.
(Colloq.) Conceited, vain, egotistical, self-opinionated, self-conceited.
Bumptious
·adj Self-conceited; forward; pushing.
bumptious
¦ adjective irritatingly self-assertive.
Derivatives
bumptiously adverb
bumptiousness noun
Origin
C19: from bump, on the pattern of fractious.
Examples of use of bumptious
1. She and her sweetheart were being very matter–of–fact, cheerful, and bumptious over the parting.
2. More controversially, so is the past and future MSP, Mike Russell, the bumptious bull of the SNP.
3. He recast it instead in his own image÷ bold, bumptious, fun and feisty.
4. Back in government I was much less bumptious, much less directive, than I had been in my previous two posts.
5. But the big, bumptious politician with the soft pink features and wave of white hair could be seen again Monday in file footage on Russian television.