Humorous. [f. BUMP sb.1 4, after words in -ology.] The (alleged) science of bumps; ‘phrenology.’ So Bumposopher [after philosopher], one who is learned in bumps.
1827. L’pool Mercury, 5 Jan., 6/1.
| Be not monopolists of knowledge, | |
| But let us have a public college, | |
| To study humanized Geology, | |
| And all the secrets of Bumpology. |
1834. Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc. (1842), III. 414. The argument is a specimen of the same defective bumpology.
1841. Englishman’s Mag., 1 Feb., 20. The general principles of bumpology.
1886. Pall Mall Gaz., 23 Aug., 4/2. Phrenology, viewed as bumpology, has ceased to occupy the minds of the scientific.
1836. Blackw. Mag., XL. 33. The most redoubtable bumposopher that ever discoursed.
