"Bumptious" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which blazes true Promethean fire instead of smolders the sulphurous caloric of the nether world—when its metes and bounds are irrevocably fixed for it—when it can only grow in certain prescribed directions, painfully mapped out for it by bumptious pismires who imagine that their little heads constitute the ...
— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... Hammerfield's judgment of Ernest, which was to the effect that he was "an insolent young puppy, made bumptious by a little and very inadequate learning." Also, Dr. Hammerfield declined ...
— The Iron Heel • Jack London |
