bumpity en · INTJ
Etymology
From bump + -ity.
Meanings
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Nonce variation of the word bump, usually indicating the sound of someone or something tumbling down an uneven surface, or traveling on a rough road.
Bang, bang, bumpity bump, I hear as spruce cones fall on the metal roofing of my woodshed.
2011, Amy Seidl, Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming:The rhythmic bumpity, bumpity, bumpity bump of a pissed academic with arthritic knees falling down the stairs, ricocheting between wall and banister as he went.
2002, Marian Keyes, Under the Duvet, page 193:"There he goes!" cried his delighted master, throwing down the poker and snapping his fingers in an ecstasy — "Bumpity bump! bumpity bump! Hope he won't stop at the landing-place — no — off again! All stone steps!
1833, Horace Smith, Gale Middleton: A Story of the Present Day, page 229:"I've always wanted romance, and I realized I'd had it with her. It made my heart go all bumpity-bump. Then she called me her light, and that was that."
2019 August 14, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Aug 14, 2019:Daria closed her eyes, exhaling slow smoke through her nostrils, listening to the bumpity sound of wheels on the polished cobblestone unevenness of the street.
1998, R. Kiernan, chapter 1, in Silk: