Plumptious, yumptious, scrumptious, bumptious…

I used the word plumptious today and spell-check didn’t like it; it offered me yumptious… OK, not bad, and bumptious, no absolutely wrong! I began to think about the words… yumptious I apparently a combination of yummy and scrumptious, which is apparently derived from sumptuous… yes, I can see that. (Sumptuous is of Latin origin meaning expensive)

Plumptious I guess is a mix of plump, meaning pleasantly fat and round, and that word sumptuous… but it doesn’t seem to be a recognized word. I looked it up and I got “definitions – sorry, no definitions found” and “etymologies – sorry, no etymologies found”. It apparently was ‘created’ by Ken Dodd the Liverpudlian singer and comedian… well, maybe, I think it may have just arisen naturally, all by itself!

Bumptious, meaning officious may also be a word which has arrived out of a marriage of two others, (in the nineteenth century, ‘bump and fractious’, it doesn’t really seem likely to me) and yet perfectly sums up what it means; bumptious… even if you didn’t know what it meant you would be able to understand it!