bumptious /ˈbʌmpʃəs/ adjective1 •(UK) Obtrusively pushy; self-important; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme.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. — 1928 formsmore bumptious · most bumptious