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Definition: BUMPING |
BUMPINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Bump |
Date "BUMPING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | BUMPING. A ceremony performed on boys perambulating the bounds of the parish on Whit-monday, when they have their posteriors bumped against the stones marking the boundaries, in order to fix them in their memory. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BUMPING |
| English words defined with "BUMPING": banging. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BUMPING": BOAT-HOIST-OPERATOR HELPER ♦ flowing film concentration ♦ pogo ♦ superpanner. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yeah, it's bumping into them that has me worried (Battlestar Galactica; writing credit: Glen A. Larson) So, you mean, we met by you bumping into my ass (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
Lyrics | You could have a bumper car, bumping (Sledgehammer; performing artist: Peter Gabriel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bumping Along (1928) The Fatal Bumping (1914) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Chinese bumping heads. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Henry Ford | What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark. |
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| "BUMPING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 96.00% of the time. "BUMPING" is used about 225 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 96% | 216 | 20,583 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.67% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.89% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.44% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 225 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "BUMPING": bumping post. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BUMPING": belly-bumping. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bumping lake | 33 |
bumping | 23 |
wafer bumping | 17 |
bumping lake washington | 11 |
auto bumping tank | 8 |
bumping pussy | 6 |
bumping campground lake | 5 |
bumping lake wa | 4 |
bumping uglies | 4 |
belly bumping sex | 3 |
bumping right | 3 |
bumping river | 3 |
against bumping wall | 3 |
advanced bumping cleaning critical solvent technology using wafer | 3 |
bumping monkey | 3 |
bumping grinding | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BUMPING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 碰' (Bumped, Clash, Collide, Collision, Crashed, Crashing). (various references) | |
Danish | rystebord (bumping table, shaker, shaking table, slime-concentrating table, tapping table, vibrating table). (various references) | |
Dutch | schudtafel (bumping table, shaker, shaking table, slime-concentrating table, vibrating table). (various references) | |
French | table secousse (bumping table), supplantation ascendante (bumping up). (various references) | |
German | stoßend (buffeting, bunting, hustling, impinging, kicking, poking, punting). (various references) | |
Greek | τράπεζα συμπύκνωσης ιλύος (bumping table, slime-concentrating table). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鉢合わせ (bumping of heads, encounter, running into someone), 車止め (buffer stop, bumper, bumping post). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くるまどめ (buffer stop, bumper, bumping post), はちあわせ (bumping of heads, encounter, running into someone). (various references) | |
Korean | 부"침 (Butting). (various references) | |
Manx | bwoalley noi ry hoi. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | umpingbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mesa ondulada (bumping table, slime-concentrating table). (various references) | |
Spanish | tope (buffer, buffer stop, bumper guard, bumping post, ceiling, check, lock, masthead, stop, target, top, topmast), mesa de vibrar (bumping table, slime-concentrating table), mesa de concentración (bumping table, slime-concentrating table). (various references) | |
Swedish | skumpande (joggle). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | великий (big, bulky, capital, copious, goodly, great, king size, large, out, vast). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"BUMPING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bokpyin, bumpings, fumping, umping. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BUMPING" (pronounced bu"mping) |
| 5 | -u" m p i ng | antidumping, clumping, dumping, jumping, lumping, pumping, slumping, stumping, thumping. |
| 4 | -m p i ng | camping, chomping, clamping, cramping, crimping, damping, lamping, limping, pimping, ramping, revamping, romping, scrimping, skimping, stamping, stomping, swamping, tamping, tramping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | aping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, burping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chopping, clapping, clipping, coping, copping, creeping, cropping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, landscaping, lapping, leaping, lopping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, raping, rapping, reaping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, ripping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, seeping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skipping, slapping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stepping, stereotyping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, swooping, taping, tapping, tipping, topping, trapping, tripping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-i-m-n-p-u" | |
-1 letter: impugn, umping. | |
-3 letters: bump, bung, gimp, muni, numb, ping, pung. | |
-4 letters: big, bin, bug, bum, bun, gib, gin, gip, gnu, gum, gun, imp, mib, mig, mug, mun, nib, nim, nip, nub, pig, pin, piu, pub, pug, pun, ump. | |
-5 letters: bi, in, mi, mu, nu, pi, um, un, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-i-m-n-p-u" | |
+1 letter: plumbing. | |
+2 letters: bumpering, plumbings. | |
+3 letters: bethumping, impugnable, replumbing, upclimbing. | |
+4 letters: subsampling. | |
+5 letters: prenumbering. | |
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