(chiefly, Scottish) A lump or mound where fabric does not lie smoothly.
At the risk of sounding like Walter Scott's Antiquary, seeing Roman remains in ilka bumphle in the landscape, I would like to point out that a third of all Roman coin finds in Fife have come from the centre of the modern town of Kirkcaldy.
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(chiefly, Scottish) To form or cause a bumphle.
I don't look in the mirror but it seems to fit as much as this sort of stuff ever does and the feather bits don't bumphle the material as much as you'd think.
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