Brewer's: Bumptious

Arrogant, full of mighty airs and graces; apt to take offence at presumed slights. A corruption of presumptuous, first into “sumptious,” then to bumptious.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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