Bumptious
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 5:46 pm
I've had this one on my list of suggestions for the suggestion list for a while now. Perhaps it's time to make the suggestion.
I always understood this word as meaning awkward, goofily clownish, etc. Come to find out it means aggressively, rudely, or offensively assertive. I believe I conflated it with bumpkin, which is often used to describe a palooka from Podunk.
I always understood this word as meaning awkward, goofily clownish, etc. Come to find out it means aggressively, rudely, or offensively assertive. I believe I conflated it with bumpkin, which is often used to describe a palooka from Podunk.