bumptious
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ʃəs adjective
offensively self-assertive: a bumptious young upstart.
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bumptious (ˈbʌmpʃəs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| offensively self-assertive or conceited | |
| [C19: perhaps a blend of | |
| 'bumptiously | |
| —adv | |
| 'bumptiousness | |
| —n | |
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Bumptious
is a GRE word you need to know.
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| to deny, dispute, or contradict; to speak or act against; oppose |
| to become thoroughly dried or dried up. |
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Word Origin & History
bumptious
"assertive," 1803, probably a humorous coinage on the pattern of fractious, etc.
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Example sentences
It was a bumptious backwoods town filled with rough, unfashionable people with an open sewer wending its way through town.
Though he shows his age, he exudes a kind of bumptious charm.
Kiley, usually a fine actor, makes a curiously bumptious and churlish visitor indeed.
Because this is a state with a bumptious citizenry that loves a rowdy political year.
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