Word Meanings - BITTERBUMP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

the butterbump or bittern.

BUTTERBUMP
The European bittern. Johnson.
BITTERN
A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species. Note: The common European bittern is Botaurus stellaris. It makes, during the brooding season, a noise called by Dryden bumping, and by Goldsmith booming. The American
BITTERNUT
The swamp hickory . Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.
BITTERNESS
1. The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind. The lip that curls