BUMP - Definition & Meaning for Kids
Meaning 1
Part of speech: Verb
knock against with force or violence
Example: My car bumped into the tree
Categories: Hit, Strike, Impinge on, Run into, Collide with
Meaning 2
Part of speech: Verb
dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward
Example: bump and grind
Categories: Dance, Trip the light fantastic, Trip the light fantastic toe
Synonyms
Relegate, Swelling, Find, Kick downstairs, Protrusion
Antonyms
🌱 Word Origin (Etymology)
The word "bump" Many other languages have similar words:
- Danish: bump
- Danish: bumpe
- Old Danish: bumpe
- Middle English: bumben
- Dutch: bommen
- German: bummen
- Icelandic: bumba
🔗 Related Words
bump – A related word in the same word family.
bum – A related word in the same word family.
bumble – A related word in the same word family.
🧩 Fun Fact
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales show how creatively Middle English speakers mixed vocabularies.