bumpity
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
intj
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.
Example Sentences
- ""There he goes!" cried his delighted master, throwing down the poker and snapping his fingers in an ecstasy — "Bumpity bump! bumpity bump! Hope he won't stop at the landing-place — no — off again! All stone steps!"
- "Daria closed her eyes, exhaling slow smoke through her nostrils, listening to the bumpity sound of wheels on the polished cobblestone unevenness of the street."
- "The rhythmic bumpity, bumpity, bumpity bump of a pissed academic with arthritic knees falling down the stairs, ricocheting between wall and banister as he went."
- "Bang, bang, bumpity bump, I hear as spruce cones fall on the metal roofing of my woodshed."
- ""I've always wanted romance, and I realized I'd had it with her. It made my heart go all bumpity-bump. Then she called me her light, and that was that.""
Etymology
From bump + -ity.