bumbledom means bureaucracy; mannerisms characteristic of pompous, arrogant or pretentious officials. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
bumbledom is pronounced /ˈbʌmbl̩dm̩/.
Why “bumbledom” is a great word
BUMBLEDOM — [Noun] The actions and mannerisms characteristic of pompous, arrogant, or self-important petty officials, especially within a bureaucratic system. From the name of Mr. Bumble, the fussy, pompous parish beadle in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist (1837-1839), combined with the suffix -dom (denoting a state, condition, or domain). Unlike "bureaucracy," which neutrally denotes a system of administration, or "pomposity," which denotes a general inflated self-importance, bumbledom is the specific theater where minor authority mistakes its tiny jurisdiction for the entire moral universe. It is the officious clearing of a throat before citing sub-section seven, the cold glint of a rubber stamp wielded to savor the power to deny, and the profound satisfaction derived from a perfectly filed rejection—the institutionalization of the small soul’s pathetic alchemy, converting trivial power into personal grandeur.
Etymology
From Mr. Bumble, a character in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, + -dom.
noun
- bureaucracy; mannerisms characteristic of pompous, arrogant or pretentious officials.“With the meekness went a strain of mild obstinacy exquisitely calculated to infuriate the self-important bumbledom of that time, as when the Friends refused to remove their hats before the Court that was to try them.”