What is "bumptious"

Usage examples of "bumptious".

Phillida Lee would talk about every murder story she has ever read, and Hatchett was more bumptious than words can describe.

Matt realized that he had missed the bumptious comments on their strenuous journey up the trail.

Chan sat on her lofty perch in the Senate chamber and presided over the bumptious gladhanders who called themselves congressmen.

Much annoyed at his bumptious manner, I was resolved now, come what would, to pay him off.

Cayacu did nothing to improve their chances by keeping to the lesser-known, more bumptious routes, away from the main commercial and tourist thoroughfares.

And I got quite a new glimpse of that sometimes bumptious person known as David Grayson.

After touching on Planck, Einstein, Moseley, Maskelyne, and the discoveries following these pioneers, the show became mainly about how the Sleepers, one by one, two by two, bunch by timid little bunch, occasional wild firedrake or bumptious troll, Awoke, came forth, and found their way into the new Goetic Age.

His voice sounded firmer and less bumptious but I could still hear his pleasure in the effect he knew it would create.

Good-looking in his own way, if not on such showy lines as Comus, always well turned-out, witty, self-confident without being bumptious, with a conspicuous Parliamentary career alongside him, and heaven knew what else in front of him, Courtenay Youghal certainly was not a rival whose chances could be held very lightly.

She didn't know whether to be more shocked by Davina's news or by the Welsh giri's bumptious Girl Guide optimism in the face of her condition, as she put it.

The steam ferry puts out from the Schiewenhorst dock and bucks the current, slant-wise and bumptious, carrying two narrow-gauge freight cars to Nickelswalde, where it will put them down on the Stutthof spur.

Perhaps he had an animus against these bumptious, undeferential, overcritical Americans, and thought it was time to give one of them a lesson.