Word of the Day, August 29

[Uadzit]

bumptious • BUMP-shus • adjective

: presumptuously, obtusely, and often noisily self-assertive : obtrusive

Example Sentence:
"I wish the DJs on this station weren't so bumptious," said Andrea. "I'd prefer to just listen to the music."

Did you know?
Etymologists believe that "bumptious" was probably coined, perhaps playfully, from the noun "bump" plus "-tious." When "bumptious" was first used around 1800, it meant "self-conceited." Charles Dickens used it that way in David Copperfield: "His hair was very smooth and wavy; but I was informed . . . that it was a wig . . . and that he needn't be so 'bounceable' -- somebody else said 'bumptious' -- about it, because his own red hair was very plainly to be seen behind."  

[chessiejo]

i always associated it with the image of a bumpkin

but they are country folk, and urbanites can clearly be bumptious too!~  

[Uadzit]

They may be even more so. XD  

[Rosenfall]

thus we get the bump  

[Wuyabi]

In what time period was the word most popular/often used? Was it colloquial, only used by that certain author, or did it grow in popularity?