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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

... 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

... 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

... and Mother had to lead us. It was pretty bumpy! I peeped some! Rosalee walked with her hands stretched way out in front of her as though she was reaching for something. She looked like a picture. It was like a picture of something very gentle and wishful that she looked like. It made me feel queer. Carol walked with his ...

— Fairy Prince and Other Stories • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

... 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

... Guinness had designed. Its protecting insulation proved quite inadequate, and the heat rapidly grew terrific as the borer dug down. Phil became faint, stifled, and his body oozed streams of sweat. And the descent was also bumpy and uneven; often he was forced to leave the controls and work on the mechanism of the disintegrators when they faltered and threatened to stop. But in spite of everything the needle on the depth gauge gradually swung over to three thousand, ...

— Astounding Stories, April, 1931 • Various