Bumpery

My neighbors’ children play with me. / They come for me to ease their woes, / Bleedery stumpings of the toes, / Splinters in fingers, at whose base / Angels have left their kissery trace; / Skinned elbows and such bruisery rings, / Or bumpery dots from wood bees’ stings.

The bushes were long, dry, tall, skinny, scraggly things, twisting and bending like dancers over hot coals, then running up on long bumpery limbs to grab a thin fistful of free sky.

Nowadays Malindo road getting too very bumpery, isn’t it, vee all-the-time complaining Regional Engineer but Mr. MacKinnon is all-the-time saying Works Department one calamitous shortage of funds got – Bye-bye!

[H]e directs her now, with hand signals, into bumps and rinds, while he sings—Pill going Al one better, not just describing his vision but demonstrating it. […] They’re all out there in the bumpery hallway now, shouting their heads off over it.

‘Ooh, Flipip,’ came Baby B’s muffled voice from inside the rucksack, ‘it’s millions bumpery in here. And Nick is a bit half prickerly when I bumper him.’

While reading a bedtime story to my four-year old grandson, Ezekiel, he was leaning against me and rubbing my elbow. He inquisitively asked “why is your elbow so bumpery”? […] He is forming his final conclusion to this situation, and he replied shaking his little head “Noooo, your elbow is bumpery because you’re old and mine isn’t because I’m new .” Yes, it’s true I have become a little bumpery.

At each station of his cross, he was forced into a state of bumpery with so many backs and fronts.

Upon entering, we were greeted with the sight of Tynee leaping across the sofa from Miss Mary. […] General Kiljoy wagged his finger at Tynee, shaking his head in mock disapproval at their bumpery.

We’ve now spent eight years watching Republican congressmen scurrying hither and thither brandishing pitchforks, outraged at the latest whiff of terrorist fist-bumpery.