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Bum

noun

1.

A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible. Synonyms: crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot. "Kill the rat" , "Throw the bum out" , "You cowardly little pukes!" , "The British call a contemptible person a 'git'"

2.

A disreputable vagrant. Synonyms: hobo, tramp. "He tried to help the really down-and-out bums"

3.

Person who does no work. Synonyms: do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer.

4.

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on. Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush. "Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

verb

(past & past part. bummed; pres. part. bumming)

1.

Ask for and get free; be a parasite. Synonyms: cadge, grub, mooch, sponge.

2.

Be lazy or idle. Synonyms: arse about, arse around, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, loll, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time.

adjective

1.

Of very poor quality; flimsy. Synonyms: cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny.

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"Bum" Quotes from Famous Books

... around me. Says Corder, struggling with his pack, "Bann, will you help me into my corset." Pickle says to Reardon (out of David's hearing) "Ten cents for a bum piece of pie that you have to eat with your hands! That gets my goat." And just now has come a hoot from every part of the camp when from I company, in line to start and loading guns for a skirmish, sounded the ...

— At Plattsburg • Allen French

... Ale-draper near New-palace-yard, Who used to Jerk the Bum of his Wife; And she was forced to stand on her Guard, To keep his Clutches from her Quoiff: She poor Soul the weaker Vessel, To be reconcil'd was easily won; He held her in scorn, But she Crown'd him with Horn, Without Hood or Scarff, and rough ...

— Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6 • Various

... Luck, I'll take that there camery and bust it over your danged head!" he spluttered. "I'll show ye! Call me a bum that's wearin' a shurf's star fer the first time in his life, will ye! Why, I'll jest about ...

— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower

... much censured, as if it had allowed of gallantry and scurrilous jests, and approved of balls and comedies, which was very far from the saint's doctrine. A preacher of that Order had the rashness and presumption to declaim bitterly against the book in a public sermon, to cut it in pieces, and bum it in the very pulpit. The saint bore this outrage without the least resentment; so perfectly was he dead to self-love. This appears more wonderful to those who know how jealous authors are of their works, as the offspring of their reason and judgment, of which men are of all things the fondest. ...

— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler

... ... a bum for a few weeks, hanging around soldiers' barracks, blacking shoes for free meals ... till Provost Marshal General Bell, in an effort to clear the islands of boys who were vags and mascots of regiments, gave me and several other rovers and stowaways free transportation ...

— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

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