They cease for a moment As the rattling clangor Of the trolley bumps by.
bumps, and a sale arterwards of new-wrecked timber on the beach.
From which it may be inferred that Mr. bumps was something of a character.
bumps trotted after Jack, but Jill betook herself to their hammock.
"You ought not to have let bumps go," said Miss Webb sharply.
Both Jack and bumps were on the sick-list for the next few days.
bumps had sprained her foot, and Jack's cut on his head was a deep and painful one.
"There is no place like home after all," she said as she sat in a low wicker-chair with bumps on her lap.
Their mother had died at bumps' birth, their father a year after.
But when bumps announced she was thirsty they looked rather dismayed.
1590s, "protuberance caused by a blow;" 1610s as "a dull, solid blow;" see bump (v.). The dancer's bump and grind attested from 1940.
1560s, "to bulge out;" 1610s, "to strike heavily," perhaps from Scandinavian, probably echoic, original sense was "hitting" then of "swelling from being hit." Also has a long association with obsolete bum "to make a booming noise," which perhaps influenced surviving senses such as bumper crop, for something full to the brim (see bumper). To bump into "meet" is from 1880s; to bump off "kill" is 1908 in underworld slang. Related: Bumped; bumping. Bumpsy (adj.) was old slang for "drunk" (1610s).
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