释义 |
bumˈpology Humorous. [f. bump n.1 4, after words in -ology.] The (alleged) science of bumps; ‘phrenology’. So bumˈposopher [after philosopher], one who is learned in bumps.
1834Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) III. 414 The argument is a specimen of the same defective bumpology. 1841Englishman's Mag. 1 Feb. 20 The general principles of bumpology. 1886Pall Mall G. 23 Aug. 4/2 Phrenology, viewed as bumpology, has ceased to occupy the minds of the scientific. 1836Blackw. Mag. XL. 33 The most redoubtable bumposopher that ever discoursed. |