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  • interjection Nonce variation of the word bump, usually indicating the sound of someone or something tumbling down an uneven surface, or traveling on a rough road.

Etymologies

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bump +‎ -ity

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Examples

  • ‘Nix forstend’ we said again, the one guard told us to wait there, the other went just inside the compound our hearts going bumpity bump.

    John Keay 2010

  • Those of you without sinodonty in your ancestry should be able to feel with your tongue that your incisors are slick and smooth across the inside surface, whereas those of you with sinodonty should feel your incisors are more bumpity-bumpity (that is the technical term).

    What the shit? -- A Bad Archaeology on TV Rant zhukora1 2009

  • Heard bumpity-bump noises and found Older Man of House hereafter OMoH lugging heavy upholstered chair out into the yard.

    From Twitter 05-17-2010 e_moon60 2010

  • Bet I souonded lik a shue in a drier goin bumpity bumpity bumpity

    Huh… that’s weird. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • And if u b asking mii, I b thinking deh puddy-tat b lukking entirelee 2 smug bowt deh bumpity-bumpity-bang-bang-klunk deh hoomin mading wen him fallinged down.

    maybe next tiem u’ll - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Or if your town has decided to “beautify” the downtown shopping district with cobblestones or other bumpity-bumpity sidewalks and crosswalks.

    STARTING THEM OFF STYLISH: BABY COUTURE MAGAZINE » Sociological Images 2008

  • We were going bumpity-bump over the Brooklyn Bridge now.

    Sundays at Tiffany's Charbonnet, Gabrielle 2008

  • There's about 10 miles of good paved trail, 10 miles of bumpity paved trail hard on the wrists, and 10 miles of surprisingly good packed dirt trail.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Bardiac 2007

  • John Kelly at NAG continues to chronicle the fight for freedom from brick sidewalks in Boston by meeting with the local WCBV Channel 5 to show the bumpity-bump pleasure of all that brick from a wheeler's point of view.

    Saturday slumgullion #4 Kay Olson 2006

  • John Kelly at NAG continues to chronicle the fight for freedom from brick sidewalks in Boston by meeting with the local WCBV Channel 5 to show the bumpity-bump pleasure of all that brick from a wheeler's point of view.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Kay Olson 2006

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