ˈbəmpē, -pi adjective
( -er/-est )
Etymology: bump (II) + -y
1.
a. : having or covered with bumps
a bumpy road
: nubby
a bumpy book cover
: exhibiting protuberances
a bumpy face
b. : protuberant
bumpy muscles
2.
a. : causing or giving bumps or jolts
a bumpy ride
the plane ran into bumpy air
b. : rhythmically choppy : somewhat unpleasantly irregular
an especially bumpy kind of short-winded prose — S.E.Fitzgerald
c. : full of difficulties
an unusually bumpy life for a man of reflection — P.R.Levin