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[syn: bumptious, self-assertive]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bumptious \Bump"tious\, a.
Self-conceited; forward; pushing. [Colloq.] --Halliwell.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bumptious
adj 1: offensively self-assertive [syn: bumptious, self-
assertive]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "bumptious":
aggressively self-confident, arrogant, audacious, biggety, brassy,
brazen, challenging, cheeky, chesty, cocky, cold, conceited,
contemptuous, contumelious, cool, daring, defiant, defying,
derisive, disdainful, disregardful, familiar, forward,
greatly daring, hubristic, immodest, impertinent, impudent,
insolent, insulting, know-it-all, obtrusive, overpresumptuous,
overweening, overwise, peacockish, peacocky, perk, perky, pert,
presuming, presumptuous, procacious, puffed up, pushy,
regardless of consequences, saucy, self-conceited,
self-opinionated, smart-alecky, stuck-up, swelled-headed, uppish,
uppity