Jaunty vs Bumptious - What's the difference?
jaunty | bumptious | Related terms |
Airy; showy; finical; hence, characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.
Dapper or stylish.
Ostentatiously self-confident.
Obtrusively pushy; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme.
* 1877 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), (A Study in Scarlet) :
* 1918 , , The Mirror and the Lamp , ch. 22:
* 1928 , (Virginia Woolf), :
Jaunty is a related term of bumptious.
As a proper noun jaunty
is (a traditional nickname for a navy master-at-arms).As an adjective bumptious is
obtrusively pushy; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme.jaunty
English
Adjective
(er)- The courtier was a jaunty fellow, attuned to the esoteric court gossip and attentive to the least beneficial wind of favor blowing from the throne.
- He wore a jaunty outfit that was all the rage.
- He walked down the street with a jaunty swaggering step, as if daring others less perfectly satisfied to intrude upon his good mood.
References
*bumptious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "There are no crimes and no criminals in these days," he said, querulously. "What is the use of having brains in our profession. I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it." I was still annoyed at his bumptious style of conversation; I thought it best to change the topic.
- From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious ; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
- She could stand it no longer. It was full of prying old women, she said, who stared in one's face, and of bumptious young men who trod on one's toes.
