Meanings
- Used to accompany, or to apologise for, a bumping motion.
(MOTH on his way back with the drinks. Bumps into someone. Dolly bird.) / MOTH. Oops sorry love. Bumpsadaisy. You all right […]
1999, Michael Earley, Philippa Keil, Contemporary Scenes for Actors, Women2 more examples
The Big Apple had been introduced that year, and Kathleen and her friends loved forming the big circle and ending with a bumpsadaisy […]
1983, Lynne McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, Her Life and Times[…] the wild gyrations of the "Big Apple," in which everyone formed a circle and ended with a "bumpsadaisy," and the Lambeth Walk, […]
1996, Sally Bedell Smith, Reflected Glory: The Life of Pamela Churchill Harriman
Origin
Apparently related to bump and whoops-a-daisy.
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bumpsadaisy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bumpsadaisy
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