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Bumpy

adjective

Causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements. Synonyms: jolting, jolty, jumpy, rocky, rough.

Covered with or full of bumps.

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"Bumpy" Quotes from Famous Books

... icicles hung from the roof of the corner store, irregular and stained from the shingles above, like an ugly set of ill-kept teeth, dripping disconsolately on the sidewalk below, and making there a bumpy blotch ...

— Purple Springs • Nellie L. McClung

... Little Crippled Girl burst out laughing. The laugh was wild, ecstatic, extravagantly boisterous, yet awkward withal, and indescribably bumpy, like the first ...

— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

... did not doubt he would do as he said. However, he did not yield without a silent struggle, though he was soon overpowered by the two burly ruffians. Each taking him by an arm, they led him outside and dragged him over a stretch of bumpy ground, stumbling ...

— The Boy Scouts on Picket Duty • Robert Shaler

... moment when I thought I could get to Vienna before the others; and, letting my clutch in gently, and telling Billy, my mechanician, to make himself fast, I soon had her upon third speed, and was racing as fast as the bad road would let me towards Provins. This was a bumpy bit, to be sure, and if I had put her on the "fourth," some one would have had to sweep up the pieces quickly. But I kept her steady, though the great cars began to go by like roaring locomotives on a down incline, ...

— The Man Who Drove the Car • Max Pemberton

... much. That bumpy forehead—eh? I had always suspected her of being silly. And I observed that Davidson must have been vexed by this display ...

— Within the Tides • Joseph Conrad

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