Definition of Bethumps

1. bethump [v] - See also: bethump

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bethumps

bethorns
bethought
bethrall
bethralls
bethreatened
bethrong
bethroth
bethrow
beths
bethumb
bethumbed
bethumbs
bethump
bethumped
bethumping
bethumps (current term)
bethwack
bethwacks
betid
betide
betided
betides
betidest
betideth
betiding
betie
betight
betimber
betime
betimed

Literary usage of Bethumps

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1907)
"For Professor James bethumps the high priests, sacred and profane, of contemporary philosophy, with a kind of holy joy. ..."

2. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"... his face puckered up like parchment, and his eyes somewhat tearful and running, but he has the temper of an angel, and were it not that he bethumps and ..."

3. Goethe: A New Pantomime by Edward Vaughan Kenealy (1850)
"... She seizes the poor wretch, and so bethumps The shrieking booby, bent on amorous suit, Instead of love he falls into the dumps; Meanwhile the third, ..."

4. Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical & Critical. Printed by Thomas Dolby, George Damiel, D. G., G. D., John Cumberland (1826)
"... the more he bethumps it with argument : be uses it, not according to its deserts, but after his own honour and dignity— considering that, ..."

5. Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical by John Cumberland (1826)
"The greater the sophism, the more he bethumps It with argument: be uses it, not according to its deserts, but after his own honour and dignity— considering ..."

6. America and the New World-state: A Plea for American Leadership in by Norman Angell (1915)
"... of the Revolution (the part written in the pre-Anglo- phile period), the Senator bangs and bethumps the English in the familiar old ward-caucus style. ..."

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