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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bumptious/ˈbʌmpʃəs/

▶adjective irritatingly self-assertive.

– derivatives
bumptiously adverb,
bumptiousness noun.

– origin C19: from bump, on the pattern of fractious.

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