bumptious

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[BUMP-shuss]

  • adj. offensively self-assertive
I hadn't been in the condo three damned minutes when the bumptious head of the community board came over to inform me that I needed to mow my lawn.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Bumptious usually refers to people but, as the editors have painfully discovered, it can also be used to refer to things.

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She's the sexiest woman I've ever met, but she's also the most self-important and self-absorbed -- which I guess makes her scrumptious and bumptious.

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I borrowed it from someone who used it as a pumpkin costume a couple years ago. Seriously bumptious.

With a bumptious jacket like that, I fail to see how you could've missed me.

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