bumpingn.¹

Brit.

/ˈbʌmpɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈbəmpɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bump v.², -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < bump v.² + -ing suffix¹. Compare earlier bump n.¹

Now rare.

The booming call of the bittern. Cf. bump v.²

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > other types of sound

jug1523

gabbling1599

bumping1646

gobbling1737

come-back1872

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 173 A Bittor maketh that mugient noyse, or as we terme it Bumping .

1845 Proc. Philol. Soc. 2 110 Bumping of the bittern.

1922 Motor Life July 8/3 The ‘bumping’ of the bittern is heard over great distance.

1962 W. K. Richmond Birds in Brit. i. 36 For weird noises the Bittern's ‘bog-bumping’..has no equal.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

bumpingn.²

Brit.

/ˈbʌmpɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈbəmpɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bump v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < bump v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

1. The action of bump v.¹ I. (in various senses). Also: an instance of this.Recorded earliest in bumping post n. at Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [noun] > jogging or jolting to and fro or up and down

figging1577

jolting1648

jetting1676

jiggeting1687

jigging1806

bumping1842

the world > movement > impact > [noun] > forcible, heavy, or violent > collision > repeated

bumping1862

1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs vii. 65 By this..Society, the Bumping-Post at Billingsgate was first erected, to harden the Buttocks of their members once a year.

1770 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer I. iii. 107 If the rogue, whilst we are thumping, With his long horns should fall to bumping.

1842 Fraser's Mag. Dec. A very tedious passage..Four days of..bumping about.

1862 G. J. Whyte-Melville Inside Bar (ed. 12) vi. 298 Sundry bumpings and thumpings on the stairs.

1926 Motor Boating Mar. 130/2 As in all old-type locks, the in-flow of water was very torrential, making the careful mooring of a small boat desirable to minimize bumpings.

1969 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 11 Mar. 6/2 No bumping—arbitrary cancellation by senior authority of someone's reservation—is allowed ‘except in emergencies or exceptional circumstances’.

2002 Indianapolis Star 25 Mar. d9/2 The high-banks of Bristol's .533-mile bullring, where the bumping and banging begins as soon as the race begins.

2. spec.

a. The action or an act of seizing a person by the arms and legs and striking his or her rump against a post, wall, etc., esp. as a punishment. Cf. bump v.¹ 4. Now rare.Quot. 1709 at sense 1 may conceivably be in this sense, but the precise sense is unclear.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] > specific object a person

threshingOE

sousingc1580

rib-roast1595

basting1599

swingeing1603

cuffing1610

lamming1611

rib-roasting1613

mauling1621

pinking1637

drubbing1650

diverberation1651

verberation1661

trimming1675

rib1699

thrashing1720

dousing1721

fagging1746

bumping1751

dusting1799

clapperclawing1806

milling1806

hiding1809

punishment1811

doing1814

bethumping1831

mugging1846

jacketing1850

frailing1851

pasting1851

towelling1851

tanning1863

fum-fum1885

ribbing1894

paddywhack1898

tanking1905

beating-up1915

shellacking1931

sloshing1931

clobbering1948

twatting1963

duffing-up1967

1751 Scribbler iii. 50 'Tis not the bumping I am afraid of, for I have often suffer'd more with less Expectation.

1836 E. Howard Rattlin, the Reefer I. ix. 79 The bumping of obnoxious ushers, and the ‘barring out’ of tyrannical masters.

1859 A. L. Elwyn Gloss. Supposed Americanisms 26 Bumping, in England, this means a particular sort of punishment, used among school-boys. ‘Cobbing,’ is another word for the same thing.

1908 Jrnl. Educ. (Univ. of Boston School of Educ.) 67 236/2 The initiation consists in what the boys call ‘bumping’.

1966 Listener 6 Oct. 518/2 There were plenty of canings, birchings, form-lickings and bumpings.

b. Chemistry. Uneven boiling occurring in a liquid being heated, characterized by the sudden expulsion of large bubbles of vapour which can force liquid from the container.Bumping occurs when a lack of nucleation sites causes superheating in a liquid.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [noun] > a) bubble(s) > sudden formation of bubble of steam

bumping1830

1830 W. T. Brande Man. Chem. (ed. 3) I. i. 51 Under mean pressure, water boils in a metallic vessel at 212°; in a glass flask it often rises to 214° or 216°; and where the steam is irregularly formed, occasioning a bumping in the vessel, the boiling point is proportionately high and irregular.

1883 W. M. Williams in Knowledge 18 Aug. 99/1 What the practical chemist calls ‘bumping’, or the sudden formation of a big bubble of steam.

1938 R. Hum Chem. for Engin. Students viii. 148 The liquid itself often contains glass beads or other devices to reduce irregular boiling and ‘bumping.’

2008 New Scientist 14 June 85/2 To prevent bumping, a chemist might deliberately scratch the inside of a flask to create nucleation sites, or may add chemically inert ‘boiling chips’ to a solution.

Phrases

bumping and boring n. Sport (originally and chiefly Horse Racing) the action or process of knocking into and then pushing past a competitor or competitors (see to bump and bore at bump v.¹ Phrases 1); interference of this sort; also in extended use.

ΚΠ

1874 Bell's Life in London 5 Dec. 6/2 From this point..occurred the bumping and boring which..lost Congress the race.

1965 R. B. Oram Cargo Handling & Mod. Port ii. 29 The Thames barge, a sturdy iron craft that can stand up to years of the bumping and boring associated with a congested and fast running river.

1988 Greyhound Star June 8/4 The other five [dogs] remained in reasonably close touch..with some bumping and boring.

2015 Racing Post (Nexis) 19 July 11 Johnson's new mount is more willing and, despite some bumping and boring from Meade he reaches the lake first.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

ΚΠ

1872 Eng. Mechanic 16 Aug. 564/2 The ‘bumping’ process.

1897 K. S. Ranjitsinhji Jubilee Bk. Cricket iii. 141 Throwing..is dangerous owing to the terrific pace and bumping power it makes possible.

1902 Chamber's Jrnl. Jan. 31/1 The ginger..is put into baskets and undergoes a ‘bumping’ or ‘bruising’ operation..which is believed to facilitate its ‘keeping’ properties.

1963 Daily Defender (Gary, Indiana) 2 Dec. 4/1 NIPSCO is governed by union ‘bumping’ rules.

2001 J. Franzen Corrections 439 Last-minute ‘bumping’ privileges for train and plane seats.

C2.

bumping post n. †(a) a post, esp. one serving as a boundary marker, against which people are ‘bumped’ as a punishment; cf. sense 2a, bump v.¹ 4 (obsolete); (b) North American a buffer, spec. one fixed to the end of a railway track.Most of the clubs discussed in the satirical work cited at quot. 1709 are fictional, so the origin, purpose, and existence of the ‘bumping post’ mentioned in this quot. are uncertain; all references to it in later works appear to derive ultimately from this source.

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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > buffer

buffer1835

stop-block1853

fender-stop1856

buffer-stop1878

stop-buffer1881

buffer-block1889

buffer-bank1900

bumping post1952

1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs vii. 65 By this..Society, the Bumping-Post at Billingsgate was first erected, to harden the Buttocks of their members once a year.

1834 Ipswich Jrnl. 11 Jan. When quite a boy he went the boundary of Ash, and was bumped upon the bumping post that he might recollect it.

1860 in Gen. Rep. Commissioner Public Wks. (Legislative Assembly Canada) (1861) 62 The bumping posts at the upper entrance of all the locks are very much decayed.

1911 C. E. Parsons All Saints' Church Horseheath vi. 93 Until quite recently a ‘bumping’ post remained at the south-eastern extremity of Horseheath parish.

1952 Jet 7 Aug. 9 The train..hit a ‘bumping post’ while backing into a station.

2015 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 29 Apr. 15 Board members blamed the design of the center track as inadequate to prevent a train striking the bumping post.

bumping race n. Rowing (chiefly at Oxford and Cambridge Universities) a race in which boats start at fixed intervals, the starting places being determined by ‘bumps’ achieved in the previous race (see bump n.² 6a).

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > types of rowing race

torpid1838

bumping race1842

row-over1866

sculls1878

May1879

Lents1886

fours1891

getting-on race1892

row-off1893

re-row1901

tub-race1903

bumper1906

bump1923

bumps race1927

head race1953

1842 Bell's Life in London 27 Mar. A ‘bumping race’, over the usual racing distance.

1908 Brown Alumni Monthly Oct. 51/2 The torpid races are also ‘bumping races’.

2015 Oxf. Times 21 May 100/3 Oxford colleges went in different directions ahead of next week's Summer Eights bumping races.

bumping table n. Mining (originally and chiefly U.S.; now historical) an apparatus containing a sloping, vibrating surface, used to remove heavier particles from powdered ore as part of the concentration process (see concentration n. 4b).

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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for washing ore > table or frame

frame1778

sleeping table1839

sweeping-table1839

sweep-table1839

bumping table1877

rag frame1904

1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 333 Bumping-table on Rittinger plan for concentration.

1906 Mining World 21 Apr. 499/1 The bumping table..is extremely simple in operation.

2012 D. Osborne in M. S. Klima et al. Challenges in Fine Coal Processing i. 10 Further development by..Campbell with the bumping table..brought the dawn of water-based shaking tables to the coal preparation industry.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

bumpingadj.

Brit.

/ˈbʌmpɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈbəmpɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bump v.¹, -ing suffix².

Etymology: < bump v.¹ + -ing suffix².

1. colloquial. Huge, great; spec. (of a drinking vessel) filled to the brim (cf. bump v.¹ II., bumper n.¹ II.). In later use also as an intensifier; cf. whacking adj., whopping adj., thumping adj. 2, etc.In recent use as an intensifier usually coloured by sense 2a: see quot. 2015.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > very great

swappingc1440

bumping1566

thumping1576

swingeinga1592

knocking1598

gigantical1604

gigantine1605

gigantean1611

gigantal?1614

thundering1618

whoppinga1625

humming1654

rapping1657

whisking1673

threshing1707

sousing1735

nation1765

heroic1785

runaway1790

spanking1791

gigantic1797

whacking1797

cracking1834

ringing1834

bouncing1842

walloping1847

stavingc1850

banging1864

howling1865

whooping1866

smacking1888

God almighty1913

Christ almighty1961

1566 T. Nuce tr. Octavia sig. D.ii.^v All the bumping bygnesse it doth beare.

a1652 R. Brome Weeding of Covent-Garden iv. i. 58 in Five New Playes (1659) Never to see you more, unlesse to greet Your bumping buttocks with revengeful feet.

1681 E. Cellier True Copy Let. Consol. (single sheet) This Thumping, Bumping Disaster.

1776 Public Advertiser 28 Oct. You should have taken a Bumping Glass of Gin.

1825 ‘E. Hardcastle’ 29th May I. i. 15 She helped herself to a bumping glass of the cordial.

1852 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 431/1 A bumping glass of brandy-and-water kindly sent out to the ‘poor’ gentleman.

1908 Jewelers' Circular 13 May 57/2 Philip Kind..provided a bumping good elephant ride for the more venturesome.

1972 Field & Stream June 118/3 Vera had a bumping strike.

2015 North Devon Jrnl. (Nexis) 21 Oct. 7 They can..have a bumping good time on the droid destroyer dodgems.

a. That bumps (in various senses of bump v.¹ I.); characterized by bumps or jolts.

ΚΠ

1577 T. Kendall tr. Politianus et al. Flowers of Epigrammes f. 39^v Then bumping blowes good words will doe much more.

1672 J. Phillips Maronides v. 77 Such force have bumping blows apply'd.

1788 Eastern Theatre Erected i. 10 With one short speech for bumping miles atone.

1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xii. 106 The worried and wearied Andy at last..fell asleep to the bumping lullaby.

1882 Calcutta Rev. 75 51 The bumping, bouncing ball.

1953 A. Hosain in Phoenix Fled 63 The first, bumping, dusty half-hour of the two-hour journey.

1976 R. Massey When I was Young xxi. 184 Guns and wagons passed us at a gallop, the gunners clinging desperately to the bumping limbers.

2014 E. Newell Energy i. 9 The bumping, moving particles are sound waves.

b. Cricket. Of a ball: rising sharply as a result of being pitched fast and short. Cf. bump v.¹ 8a. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [adjective] > types of delivery or ball

wide1827

shooting1833

full-pitched1834

bumping1851

overpitched1855

hand over head1862

bumpy1864

right arm1877

breaking1881

fast-breaking1893

leg-breaking1896

hittable1898

off-breaking1904

inswinging1920

underpitched1927

outswinging1929

1851 Bell's Life in London 20 July 6/2 Beckenhamer..ducked to avoid a bumping ball in his face.

1882 C. F. Pardon Australians in Eng. 173 Bates was caught, a bumping ball from Spofforth going off the shoulder of his bat.

1934 Medicine Hat (Alberta) News 17 Aug. 6/4 England calls this form of bowling a fast bumping ball directed at the leg stump..‘fast leg-theory’.

1956 Manch. Guardian 24 May 4/1 He tended..to bowl too many short, bumping balls.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

n.¹1646

n.²1709

adj.1566

单词	bumping
释义	bumpingn.¹ Brit. /ˈbʌmpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbəmpɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bump v.², -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < bump v.² + -ing suffix¹. Compare earlier bump n.¹ Now rare. The booming call of the bittern. Cf. bump v.² ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > other types of sound jug1523 gabbling1599 bumping1646 gobbling1737 come-back1872 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 173 A Bittor maketh that mugient noyse, or as we terme it Bumping . View more context for this quotation 1845 Proc. Philol. Soc. 2 110 Bumping of the bittern. 1922 Motor Life July 8/3 The ‘bumping’ of the bittern is heard over great distance. 1962 W. K. Richmond Birds in Brit. i. 36 For weird noises the Bittern's ‘bog-bumping’..has no equal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bumpingn.² Brit. /ˈbʌmpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbəmpɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bump v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < bump v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. 1. The action of bump v.¹ I. (in various senses). Also: an instance of this.Recorded earliest in bumping post n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [noun] > jogging or jolting to and fro or up and down figging1577 jolting1648 jetting1676 jiggeting1687 jigging1806 bumping1842 the world > movement > impact > [noun] > forcible, heavy, or violent > collision > repeated bumping1862 1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs vii. 65 By this..Society, the Bumping-Post at Billingsgate was first erected, to harden the Buttocks of their members once a year. 1770 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer I. iii. 107 If the rogue, whilst we are thumping, With his long horns should fall to bumping. 1842 Fraser's Mag. Dec. A very tedious passage..Four days of..bumping about. 1862 G. J. Whyte-Melville Inside Bar (ed. 12) vi. 298 Sundry bumpings and thumpings on the stairs. 1926 Motor Boating Mar. 130/2 As in all old-type locks, the in-flow of water was very torrential, making the careful mooring of a small boat desirable to minimize bumpings. 1969 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 11 Mar. 6/2 No bumping—arbitrary cancellation by senior authority of someone's reservation—is allowed ‘except in emergencies or exceptional circumstances’. 2002 Indianapolis Star 25 Mar. d9/2 The high-banks of Bristol's .533-mile bullring, where the bumping and banging begins as soon as the race begins. 2. spec. a. The action or an act of seizing a person by the arms and legs and striking his or her rump against a post, wall, etc., esp. as a punishment. Cf. bump v.¹ 4. Now rare.Quot. 1709 at sense 1 may conceivably be in this sense, but the precise sense is unclear. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] > specific object a person threshingOE sousingc1580 rib-roast1595 basting1599 swingeing1603 cuffing1610 lamming1611 rib-roasting1613 mauling1621 pinking1637 drubbing1650 diverberation1651 verberation1661 trimming1675 rib1699 thrashing1720 dousing1721 fagging1746 bumping1751 dusting1799 clapperclawing1806 milling1806 hiding1809 punishment1811 doing1814 bethumping1831 mugging1846 jacketing1850 frailing1851 pasting1851 towelling1851 tanning1863 fum-fum1885 ribbing1894 paddywhack1898 tanking1905 beating-up1915 shellacking1931 sloshing1931 clobbering1948 twatting1963 duffing-up1967 1751 Scribbler iii. 50 'Tis not the bumping I am afraid of, for I have often suffer'd more with less Expectation. 1836 E. Howard Rattlin, the Reefer I. ix. 79 The bumping of obnoxious ushers, and the ‘barring out’ of tyrannical masters. 1859 A. L. Elwyn Gloss. Supposed Americanisms 26 Bumping, in England, this means a particular sort of punishment, used among school-boys. ‘Cobbing,’ is another word for the same thing. 1908 Jrnl. Educ. (Univ. of Boston School of Educ.) 67 236/2 The initiation consists in what the boys call ‘bumping’. 1966 Listener 6 Oct. 518/2 There were plenty of canings, birchings, form-lickings and bumpings. b. Chemistry. Uneven boiling occurring in a liquid being heated, characterized by the sudden expulsion of large bubbles of vapour which can force liquid from the container.Bumping occurs when a lack of nucleation sites causes superheating in a liquid. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [noun] > a) bubble(s) > sudden formation of bubble of steam bumping1830 1830 W. T. Brande Man. Chem. (ed. 3) I. i. 51 Under mean pressure, water boils in a metallic vessel at 212°; in a glass flask it often rises to 214° or 216°; and where the steam is irregularly formed, occasioning a bumping in the vessel, the boiling point is proportionately high and irregular. 1883 W. M. Williams in Knowledge 18 Aug. 99/1 What the practical chemist calls ‘bumping’, or the sudden formation of a big bubble of steam. 1938 R. Hum Chem. for Engin. Students viii. 148 The liquid itself often contains glass beads or other devices to reduce irregular boiling and ‘bumping.’ 2008 New Scientist 14 June 85/2 To prevent bumping, a chemist might deliberately scratch the inside of a flask to create nucleation sites, or may add chemically inert ‘boiling chips’ to a solution. Phrases bumping and boring n. Sport (originally and chiefly Horse Racing) the action or process of knocking into and then pushing past a competitor or competitors (see to bump and bore at bump v.¹ Phrases 1); interference of this sort; also in extended use. ΚΠ 1874 Bell's Life in London 5 Dec. 6/2 From this point..occurred the bumping and boring which..lost Congress the race. 1965 R. B. Oram Cargo Handling & Mod. Port ii. 29 The Thames barge, a sturdy iron craft that can stand up to years of the bumping and boring associated with a congested and fast running river. 1988 Greyhound Star June 8/4 The other five [dogs] remained in reasonably close touch..with some bumping and boring. 2015 Racing Post (Nexis) 19 July 11 Johnson's new mount is more willing and, despite some bumping and boring from Meade he reaches the lake first. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1872 Eng. Mechanic 16 Aug. 564/2 The ‘bumping’ process. 1897 K. S. Ranjitsinhji Jubilee Bk. Cricket iii. 141 Throwing..is dangerous owing to the terrific pace and bumping power it makes possible. 1902 Chamber's Jrnl. Jan. 31/1 The ginger..is put into baskets and undergoes a ‘bumping’ or ‘bruising’ operation..which is believed to facilitate its ‘keeping’ properties. 1963 Daily Defender (Gary, Indiana) 2 Dec. 4/1 NIPSCO is governed by union ‘bumping’ rules. 2001 J. Franzen Corrections 439 Last-minute ‘bumping’ privileges for train and plane seats. C2. bumping post n. †(a) a post, esp. one serving as a boundary marker, against which people are ‘bumped’ as a punishment; cf. sense 2a, bump v.¹ 4 (obsolete); (b) North American a buffer, spec. one fixed to the end of a railway track.Most of the clubs discussed in the satirical work cited at quot. 1709 are fictional, so the origin, purpose, and existence of the ‘bumping post’ mentioned in this quot. are uncertain; all references to it in later works appear to derive ultimately from this source. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > buffer buffer1835 stop-block1853 fender-stop1856 buffer-stop1878 stop-buffer1881 buffer-block1889 buffer-bank1900 bumping post1952 1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs vii. 65 By this..Society, the Bumping-Post at Billingsgate was first erected, to harden the Buttocks of their members once a year. 1834 Ipswich Jrnl. 11 Jan. When quite a boy he went the boundary of Ash, and was bumped upon the bumping post that he might recollect it. 1860 in Gen. Rep. Commissioner Public Wks. (Legislative Assembly Canada) (1861) 62 The bumping posts at the upper entrance of all the locks are very much decayed. 1911 C. E. Parsons All Saints' Church Horseheath vi. 93 Until quite recently a ‘bumping’ post remained at the south-eastern extremity of Horseheath parish. 1952 Jet 7 Aug. 9 The train..hit a ‘bumping post’ while backing into a station. 2015 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 29 Apr. 15 Board members blamed the design of the center track as inadequate to prevent a train striking the bumping post. bumping race n. Rowing (chiefly at Oxford and Cambridge Universities) a race in which boats start at fixed intervals, the starting places being determined by ‘bumps’ achieved in the previous race (see bump n.² 6a). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > types of rowing race torpid1838 bumping race1842 row-over1866 sculls1878 May1879 Lents1886 fours1891 getting-on race1892 row-off1893 re-row1901 tub-race1903 bumper1906 bump1923 bumps race1927 head race1953 1842 Bell's Life in London 27 Mar. A ‘bumping race’, over the usual racing distance. 1908 Brown Alumni Monthly Oct. 51/2 The torpid races are also ‘bumping races’. 2015 Oxf. Times 21 May 100/3 Oxford colleges went in different directions ahead of next week's Summer Eights bumping races. bumping table n. Mining (originally and chiefly U.S.; now historical) an apparatus containing a sloping, vibrating surface, used to remove heavier particles from powdered ore as part of the concentration process (see concentration n. 4b). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for washing ore > table or frame frame1778 sleeping table1839 sweeping-table1839 sweep-table1839 bumping table1877 rag frame1904 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 333 Bumping-table on Rittinger plan for concentration. 1906 Mining World 21 Apr. 499/1 The bumping table..is extremely simple in operation. 2012 D. Osborne in M. S. Klima et al. Challenges in Fine Coal Processing i. 10 Further development by..Campbell with the bumping table..brought the dawn of water-based shaking tables to the coal preparation industry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bumpingadj. Brit. /ˈbʌmpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbəmpɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bump v.¹, -ing suffix². Etymology: < bump v.¹ + -ing suffix². 1. colloquial. Huge, great; spec. (of a drinking vessel) filled to the brim (cf. bump v.¹ II., bumper n.¹ II.). In later use also as an intensifier; cf. whacking adj., whopping adj., thumping adj. 2, etc.In recent use as an intensifier usually coloured by sense 2a: see quot. 2015. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > very great swappingc1440 bumping1566 thumping1576 swingeinga1592 knocking1598 gigantical1604 gigantine1605 gigantean1611 gigantal?1614 thundering1618 whoppinga1625 humming1654 rapping1657 whisking1673 threshing1707 sousing1735 nation1765 heroic1785 runaway1790 spanking1791 gigantic1797 whacking1797 cracking1834 ringing1834 bouncing1842 walloping1847 stavingc1850 banging1864 howling1865 whooping1866 smacking1888 God almighty1913 Christ almighty1961 1566 T. Nuce tr. Octavia sig. D.ii.^v All the bumping bygnesse it doth beare. a1652 R. Brome Weeding of Covent-Garden iv. i. 58 in Five New Playes (1659) Never to see you more, unlesse to greet Your bumping buttocks with revengeful feet. 1681 E. Cellier True Copy Let. Consol. (single sheet) This Thumping, Bumping Disaster. 1776 Public Advertiser 28 Oct. You should have taken a Bumping Glass of Gin. 1825 ‘E. Hardcastle’ 29th May I. i. 15 She helped herself to a bumping glass of the cordial. 1852 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 431/1 A bumping glass of brandy-and-water kindly sent out to the ‘poor’ gentleman. 1908 Jewelers' Circular 13 May 57/2 Philip Kind..provided a bumping good elephant ride for the more venturesome. 1972 Field & Stream June 118/3 Vera had a bumping strike. 2015 North Devon Jrnl. (Nexis) 21 Oct. 7 They can..have a bumping good time on the droid destroyer dodgems. 2. a. That bumps (in various senses of bump v.¹ I.); characterized by bumps or jolts. ΚΠ 1577 T. Kendall tr. Politianus et al. Flowers of Epigrammes f. 39^v Then bumping blowes good words will doe much more. 1672 J. Phillips Maronides v. 77 Such force have bumping blows apply'd. 1788 Eastern Theatre Erected i. 10 With one short speech for bumping miles atone. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xii. 106 The worried and wearied Andy at last..fell asleep to the bumping lullaby. 1882 Calcutta Rev. 75 51 The bumping, bouncing ball. 1953 A. Hosain in Phoenix Fled 63 The first, bumping, dusty half-hour of the two-hour journey. 1976 R. Massey When I was Young xxi. 184 Guns and wagons passed us at a gallop, the gunners clinging desperately to the bumping limbers. 2014 E. Newell Energy i. 9 The bumping, moving particles are sound waves. b. Cricket. Of a ball: rising sharply as a result of being pitched fast and short. Cf. bump v.¹ 8a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [adjective] > types of delivery or ball wide1827 shooting1833 full-pitched1834 bumping1851 overpitched1855 hand over head1862 bumpy1864 right arm1877 breaking1881 fast-breaking1893 leg-breaking1896 hittable1898 off-breaking1904 inswinging1920 underpitched1927 outswinging1929 1851 Bell's Life in London 20 July 6/2 Beckenhamer..ducked to avoid a bumping ball in his face. 1882 C. F. Pardon Australians in Eng. 173 Bates was caught, a bumping ball from Spofforth going off the shoulder of his bat. 1934 Medicine Hat (Alberta) News 17 Aug. 6/4 England calls this form of bowling a fast bumping ball directed at the leg stump..‘fast leg-theory’. 1956 Manch. Guardian 24 May 4/1 He tended..to bowl too many short, bumping balls. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹1646n.²1709adj.1566
随便看	to guess to guess at to guide one's ways to guide the way to gulch out to gulf it to gulp down to gum the game to gum the works to gum up the works to gumshoe for to gun for to gurgle down to gust the mouth, or the gab to gust up to gutter along to guy at to gybe over to hack about to hack around to hack in gobbets to hack into gobbets to hack it to hack out to hack to death

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