Talk:bump

Boating senses

• We already have: "(rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead".
• Chambers 1908 also has this transitive verb: "to overtake and impinge upon the stern or side of a boat by the boat following, the bumper consequently taking the place of the bumped in rank; also to make a bump [i.e. noun]". This perhaps suggests something more than the general sense of a light collision.

Equinox ◑ 20:57, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

bumptious

What meaning is used in bumptious ? --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:00, 12 July 2021 (UTC)