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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

... am conveyed in a kind of bathchair resting on one wheel. One boy goes in front and one behind and when the road is very bad or an obstacle is met, they lift the machine bodily over it. It is however, a bumpy ride, for the roads are very rough and the chair has no springs. We pass the Mess, capable of dining sixty men and visit the prison. This is a brick building arranged as a quadrangle with an exercising yard in the centre. The cells are lofty and airy and only one prisoner occupies ...

— A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State • Marcus Dorman

... as near fifteen as thirty, although she was in reality only nineteen, four years younger than her husband. There was much feline slyness in the depths of her little black eyes, which suggested gimlet holes. Her low, bumpy forehead, her slightly depressed nose with delicate quivering nostrils, her thin red lips and prominent chin, parted from her cheeks by strange hollows, all suggested the countenance of an artful dwarf, a living mask of intrigue, an active, envious ambition. With all her ugliness, ...

— The Fortune of the Rougons • Emile Zola

... in any visible regard was the scene marked by drama. Merely some muddied men burdened with ironmongery and bumpy with gas masks and ammunition packs climbed laboriously out of a slit in the wet earth and in squads—single filing, one man behind the next as directly as might be—stepped along through a pale, sad, slightly misty light at rather a deliberate pace, to traverse a barb-wired ...

— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb

... get in any more dumb waiters," said Bunny, with a shake of his head. "They're too small, and they're too bumpy." ...

— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home • Laura Lee Hope

Words linked to "Bumpy" : bump, bumpiness, smooth, jumpy, unsmooth