bumpologistn.
/bʌmˈpɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /ˌbəmˈpɑlədʒəst/ Chiefly humorous. Now historical.
An expert in the pseudoscientific study of bumps on the skull; phrenological. Cf. bumpology n.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > faculty psychology > psychological study of the skull > [noun] > practitioner of
cranioscopist1809
craniologist1815
phrenologist1815
bumpologist1824
turnipologist1824
bumposopher1836
phrenologer1846
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 16 237 He you recollect is one, not of the Bumpologists, but of the Fistologists.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 3 Jan. 8/2 It is not only porters who patronise the bumpologist.
1922 Dauphin (Manitoba) Herald 6 Apr. A bumpologist explaining to the public his ideas on certain parts of the cranium.
2009 D. Schacter et al. Psychol. i. 6 While Gall was busy playing bumpologist, other French scientists were beginning to link the brain and the mind in a more convincing manner.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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