bumptious
bumptious 英 [ˈbʌmpʃəs] 美 [ˈbʌmpʃəs]
adj. 傲慢的；瞎自夸的
- Someone bumptious is cocky, aggressive, and loud. Bumptious people jump ahead of everyone in line at the ice cream truck and steal subway seats from pregnant women.
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- adj. 傲慢的；瞎自夸的
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1. But I somehow felt greatly abashed while returning home, as if I had acted like a raw and bumptious youth in thus thrusting myself upon him unasked and unintroduced.
但我回到家里时，不知为何总觉得很羞愧，我这样未被邀请不经介绍就贸然前去看他，看起来就像是一个不懂礼貌的狂妄的年轻人。
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2. I was having trouble making it to the bathroom, let alone meeting the vigorous demands of a bumptious four-year-old boy.
我连自己去上厕所都困难，更不要说去应付一个4岁大的不断需要照顾的孩子。
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3. Mr Cameron has yet to hit on a rhetorical register between bitter and bumptious .
卡梅伦先生必须在抱怨的和傲慢的之间找到一个左右逢源的切入点。
- bumptious (adj.) "offensively assertive," 1803, probably a humorous slang coinage from bump on the pattern of fractious, etc. Related: Bumptiously; bumptiousness.
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