bumpery noun 1adjective 1 noun1 •(informal, rare) Bumping.At each station of his cross, he was forced into a state of bumpery with so many backs and fronts. — 1982 adjective1 •(informal, rare) Synonym of bumpy (“having or involving bumps”).The bushes were long, dry, tall, skinny, scraggly things, twisting and bending like dancers over hot coals, then running up on long bumpery limbs to grab a thin fistful of free sky. — 1947