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Word: bumptink (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confesses Novelist Oliver La Farge, describing this painful encounter in his second year at Groton School. "Perhaps I had wrapped something in toilet paper when I was packing." Whatever the cause, the dart stuck. Throughout the day the inspired bully developed it "through Bumwad Inky to Bumptink to Bump, and finally to the chef d'oeuvre of his career - Bop. ... I fought him and was licked, that evening and several times more in the next few days. It was too late then. I was Bop. ... I had joined the outcasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unlaughing Boy | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

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