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bumpery
adj 1noun 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
long, many
VERB + BUMPERY
getting, state
BUMPERY + NOUN
isn, limbs, t
PREP.
on, up, with
Definitions
adj
1
Synonym of bumpy (“having or involving bumps”).
My neighbors’ children play with me. / They come for me to ease their woes, / Bleedery stumpings of the toes, / Splinters in fingers, at whose base / Angels have left their kissery trace; / Skinned elbows and such bruisery rings, / Or bumpery dots from wood bees’ stings.
The bushes were long, dry, tall, skinny, scraggly things, twisting and bending like dancers over hot coals, then running up on long bumpery limbs to grab a thin fistful of free sky.
noun
1
Bumping.
At each station of his cross, he was forced into a state of bumpery with so many backs and fronts.
Upon entering, we were greeted with the sight of Tynee leaping across the sofa from Miss Mary. […] General Kiljoy wagged his finger at Tynee, shaking his head in mock disapproval at their bumpery.
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My neighbors’ children play with me. / They come for me to ease their woes, / Bleedery stumpings of the toes, / Splinters in fingers, at whose base / Angels have left their kissery trace; / Skinned el
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The bushes were long, dry, tall, skinny, scraggly things, twisting and bending like dancers over hot coals, then running up on long bumpery limbs to grab a thin fistful of free sky.
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Nowadays Malindo road getting too very bumpery, isn’t it, vee all-the-time complaining Regional Engineer but Mr. MacKinnon is all-the-time saying Works Department one calamitous shortage of funds got
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At each station of his cross, he was forced into a state of bumpery with so many backs and fronts.
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Upon entering, we were greeted with the sight of Tynee leaping across the sofa from Miss Mary. […] General Kiljoy wagged his finger at Tynee, shaking his head in mock disapproval at their bumpery.
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We’ve now spent eight years watching Republican congressmen scurrying hither and thither brandishing pitchforks, outraged at the latest whiff of terrorist fist-bumpery.
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