Bullying, n. Bluster, swagger, fanfaronade, gasconade, vaporing, hectoring, fire-eating, mock-heroics, browbeating, domineering.
Bulwark, n.
- 1. Rampart, redoubt, fortification.
- 2. Security, safeguard, palladium, protection, main reliance, chief defence.
Bumble-bee, n. Humble-bee.
Bump, n.
- 1. Thump, knock, blow, shock, jar, jolt.
- 2. Swelling, protuberance, lump.
- 3. (Colloquial, in allusion to the doctrine of Phrenology that protuberances on the skull indicate faculties
of the mind). Faculty, power, endowment, gift.
Bump, v. a. Knock, thump, strike, hit.
Bump, v. n.
- 1. Come in contact, strike together, strike, thump.
- 2. Boom (as the bittern), make a hollow, resounding noise.
Bumper, n. Full glass, flowing bowl, brimming beaker, brimmed goblet.
Bumpkin, n. Rustic, peasant, clodpoll, clown, boor, hind, lout, lubber, swain, ploughman, country-fellow, chaw-bacon (colloq.).
Bumptious, a. (Colloq.) Conceited, vain, egotistical, self-opinionated, self-conceited.
Bunch, n.
- 1. Protuberance, hunch, knob, lump, bump.
- 2. Cluster (as of grapes).
- 3. Batch, assortment, lot, set, parcel, collection, group.
- 4. Tuft, knot.