bum
Plural: bums
Noun
- a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
- "throw the bum out"
- a disreputable vagrant
- "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums"
- person who does no work
- "a lazy bum"
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- The buttocks.
- The anus.
- A homeless person, usually a man.
- A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
- A player or racer who often performs poorly.
- A drinking spree.
- A humming noise.
- A bumbailiff.
Verb
Verb Forms: bummed, bumming, bums
- To live idly or to acquire by begging.
- ask for and get free; be a parasite
- be lazy or idle
- "Her son is just bumming around all day"
- To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
- To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
- To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond.
- To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
- To depress; to make unhappy.
- To make a murmuring or humming sound.
Adjective Satellite
- of very poor quality; flimsy
Intj
- An expression of annoyance.
Adj
- Of poor quality or highly undesirable.
- Unfair.
- Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.
- Unpleasant or unhappy.
Adjective
- Of little value; worthless or inferior.
Examples
- a bum deal
- After a long Scrabble game, I just wanted to BUM around and not think about letters.
- bum note
- Can I bum a cigarette off you?
- Fred is becoming a bum—he’s not even bothering to work more than once a month.
- He had a bum trip on that mescaline.
- I can’t play football anymore on account of my bum knee.
- I think I’ll just bum around downtown for a while until dinner.
- My tiles were BUM, making it impossible to form any high-scoring words.
- Okay, everyone sit on your bum and try and touch your toes.
- That guy keeps interrupting the concert. Throw the bum out!
- That mechanic’s a bum—he couldn’t fix a yo-yo.
- Trade him to another team, he’s a bum!
Origin / Etymology
Attested since the 1300s, as Middle English bom (found in John Trevisa's 1387 Translation of the 'Polychronicon' of Ranulph Higden, "his bom is oute"), of uncertain origin. Sometimes suggested to be a shortening of botme, botom, bottum (“bottom”), but this is contradicted by the fact that bottom is not attested in reference to the buttocks until the late 1700s. Suggested by some old and modern references to be onomatopoeic.
Compare also Old Irish, Scottish Gaelic bun (“base, bottom”).
Synonyms
arse, arse about, arse around, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum about, bum around, buns, butt, buttocks, cadge, can, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crumb, crummy, derriere, dirty dog, do-nothing, fanny, frig around, fuck off, fundament, git, grub, hind end, hindquarters, hobo, idler, keister, layabout, loaf, loafer, loll, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, lowlife, mooch, nates, posterior, prat, puke, punk, rat, rear, rear end, rotter, rump, scum bag, seat, skunk, sleazy, so-and-so, sponge, stern, stinker, stinkpot, tail, tail end, tinny, tooshie, tramp, tush, waste one's time, 'tocks, Gary Glitter, Hershey highway, Jack out of doors, a-hole, anus, arse cheeks, arsehole, ass cheeks, asscunt, asshole, asspussy, back, back alley, back door, back passage, balloon knot, batty, batty hole, beg, bender, binge, blag, blessed assurance, booty, bootyhole, botty, brown eye, browneye, bum, bum cheeks, bumhole, bumpkin, bung-hole, bunghole, bungus, butt cheeks, butthole, buttonhole, caboose, casual, cheeks, chocolate channel, chocolate starfish, chuff, cinnamon ring, clacka, clacker, clochard, cornhole, couch potato, craphole, cumhole, dawdler, deadbeat, derelict, dero, ding, dinger, do-naught, dock, dogfucker, dookie hole, dosser, down-and-out, down-and-outer, drifter, duff, dung funnel, epithite, exit hole, faineant, fartbox, farthole, flaneur, floater, footler, fourth point of contact, freckle, fuckhole, fudge tunnel, gadling, get-nothing, glutes, gluteus maximus, goldbricker, goof-off, gooseberry-grinder, gump stump, heinie, hinderlin, hiney, hurdies, idleton, jacksie, jacksy, keester, knight of the road, laggard, lallygag, landleaper, landloper, landlouper, lazy ass, lazy louse, lazybones, leather cheerio, leech, lidderon, lie-abed, loiter, loiter-sack, lollygagger, lounge lizard, lounger, love hole, moneymaker, moon, morepork, nether cheeks, nomad, other end, paker, palliard, patootie, peach, pike, piker, poop, poop chute, pooper, poophole, ragabash, ranger, rectum, ringpiece, rogue, rolling stone, rosebud, rough sleeper, rusty sheriff's badge, scatterling, scrounge, shirker, shithole, shitter, sit upon, skelder, skell, slacker, slow belly, slug-a-bed, slugabed, slugabug, sluggabed, sluggard, sluthole, smelly freckle, sofa spud, starfish, stinkhole, street bum, stroller, stumblebum, swaggie, swagman, tap, tarrier, tewel, toches, toerag, tooter, tradesman's entrance, truant, turd cutter, tushie, vagabond, vagrant, vent, waif, wanderer, wazoo, wheedle, where the sun don't shine, windpipe, yagger, ying-yang
Scrabble Score: 7
bum: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbum: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bum: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary