bum

  • 41bum — 1. n. Brit. sl. the buttocks. Phrases and idioms: bum bailiff hist. a bailiff empowered to collect debts or arrest debtors for non payment. bum boat any small boat plying with provisions etc. for ships. bum sucker sl. a toady. bum sucking… …

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  • 42bum —    American    a vagrant or beggar is not a euphemism, being a shortened form of bummer, from the German bummeln, to stroll or idle, whence to tramp, and not from bum, the buttocks. The obsolete Scottish bum, a coarse woman, predates that… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 43bum — I. n 1. British the bottom, backside, buttocks. From the Middle English period to the end of the 18th century it was possible to use this word in English without offending respectable persons. By the 19th century it was considered rude, perhaps… …

    Contemporary slang

  • 44bum — Synonyms and related words: Arab, Bowery bum, amiss, arse, ass, backside, bad, barfy, bat around, beach bum, beachcomber, beg, beggar, beggarly fellow, bender, birr, blighter, bo, bombilate, bombinate, boom, booze, boozehound, bottle sucker,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 45bum — I «wyraz, zwykle powtórzony, mający naśladować dźwięk wydawany przez bijący zegar, dzwon lub odgłos wydawany przy uderzeniu w jakiś przedmiot» Bum, bum wybił zegar. Bum zabrzmiał dzwon okrętowy. Bum, bum, bum słychać dźwięk bębna. II m IV, D. u,… …

    Słownik języka polskiego

  • 46bùm — in búm medm. (ȕ; ȗ) posnema močen pok, zamolkel glas pri udarcu: bum! je zagrmel strel; boben, srce udarja bum bum bum; telebnil je, bum, na tla …

    Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika

  • 47bum — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun (informal) 1 (BrE) person s bottom ADJECTIVE ▪ big ▪ bare VERB + BUM ▪ feel, pinch ▪ …

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  • 48bum — I [[t]bʌm[/t]] n. v. bummed, bum•ming, 1) a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler 2) a tramp, hobo, or derelict 3) inf Informal. a single minded enthusiast of a specific sport: a ski bum[/ex] 4) Informal. an incompetent… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 49bum — bụm, bumm <Interj.>: lautm. für einen dumpfen Schlag, Schuss o. Ä.: plötzlich machte es b.! * * * BUM,   British Underground Music. * * * bụm <Interj.>: lautm. für einen dumpfen Schlag, Schuss o. Ä.: bum, bum!; bim, bam, bum! …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 50bum — {{11}}bum (1) buttocks, late 14c., probably onomatopЕ“ic, to be compared with other words of similar sound and with the general sense of protuberance, swelling. [OED] {{12}}bum (2) dissolute loafer, tramp, 1864, Amer.Eng., from bummer loafer,… …

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