BUMPTIOUS
ADJECTIVES
► ARSEY aggressive, bumptious, truculent → 1990 UK sl.
► BEGOTTY bumptious, overbearing, self-willed → 1873 Eng. dial.
► BIGATY ► BIGGEDY ► BIGGERTY ► BIGGETY ► BIGGITY ► BIGOTTY haughty, conceited, bumptious → 1881 orig. African-American
► BIGGITIVE bumptious, pushy, showing off → 1996 W. Indies
► BOUNCEABLE bumptious, cheeky, prone to boasting → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BREEZY too loud and bumptious → 1860 UK sl.
► PISSING-TAIL ► PISS ‘N’ TAIL ► PISSY-TAIL of a young person: disrespectful, bumptious → 1970 W. Indies
► TURGENT swollen with pride or conceit; bumptious; also, using inflated language → 1621
► UPSTART bumptious, stuck up, domineering → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS – PERSON
► BIGNADUO a bumptious person, a boaster, a show-off, one who puts on airs → 1943 W. Indies
► GAMPHREL a bumptious, foolish person → 1728 Sc.
► JACK STROP a bumptious or opinionated man; a conceited man who fancies himself a dashing buccaneer, but is better at boasting than acting → 1945 nautical sl.
► PUNK a bumptious but insignificant or contemptible person → 19C sl.
VERBS
► BUCK ► BUKH to talk bumptiously or big, to swagger, to brag → 1880 sl.
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