BUM - 15 definitions found
bum adj 1: of very poor quality; flimsy [syn: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny] n 1: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git] 2: a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums" [syn: tramp, hobo, bum] 3: person who does no work; "a lazy bum" [syn: idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum] 4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass] v 1: ask for and get free; be a parasite [syn: mooch, bum, cadge, grub, sponge] 2: be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day" [syn: bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about}, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's time}, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge about}] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) bum I. noun Etymology: Middle English bom Date: 14th century buttocks II. adjective Etymology: perhaps from 4bum Date: 1859 1. a. of poor quality or nature <bum luck> <bum advice> b. not valid or deserved <a bum check> <a bum rap> c. not pleasant or enjoyable <a bum trip> 2. affected or disabled by damage or injury <a bum knee> III. verb (bummed; bumming) Etymology: probably back-formation from 1bummer Date: 1863 intransitive verb 1. loaf 2. to spend time unemployed and often wandering — often used with around transitive verb to obtain by asking or begging ; cadge <bum a cigarette> IV. noun Etymology: probably short for 1bummer Date: 1864 1. a. one who sponges off others and avoids work b. one who performs a function poorly <called the umpire a bum> c. one whose time is devoted to a recreational activity <a beach bum> <ski bums> 2. vagrant, tramp V. noun Etymology: perhaps from 3bum Date: 1863 a drinking spree ; bender VI. transitive verb Etymology: probably back-formation from 2bummer Date: 1973 disappoint, depress — often used with out <the news really bummed me out> Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary bum (bums, bumming, bummed) 1. Someone's bum is the part of their body which they sit on. (BRIT INFORMAL, RUDE) = bottom N-COUNT: poss N 2. A bum is a person who has no permanent home or job and who gets money by working occasionally or by asking people for money. (AM INFORMAL) N-COUNT 3. If someone refers to another person as a bum, they think that person is worthless or irresponsible. (INFORMAL) You're all a bunch of bums. N-COUNT [disapproval] 4. Some people use bum to describe a situation that they find unpleasant or annoying. (INFORMAL) He knows you're getting a bum deal. ADJ: ADJ n 5. If you bum something off someone, you ask them for it and they give it to you. (INFORMAL) Mind if I bum a cigarette? VERB: V n 6. If you bum around, you go from place to place without any particular destination, either for enjoyment or because you have nothing else to do. (INFORMAL) I think they're just bumming around at the moment, not doing a lot... She went off to bum round the world with a boyfriend. VERB: V around, V round n 7. see also beach bum 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue BUM the breech, or backside. Big Comprehensive Abbreviation Dictionary BUM Big Comprehensive Abbreviation Dictionary bum Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Bum \Bum\, n. [Contr. fr. bottom in this sense.] The buttock. [Low] --Shak. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Bum \Bum\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bummed; p. pr. & vb.n. Bumming (?).] [See Boom, v. i., to roar.] To make murmuring or humming sound. --Jamieson. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Bum \Bum\, n. A humming noise. --Halliwell. Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) bum 1. vt. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at the expense of clarity. "I managed to bum three more instructions out of that code." "I spent half the night bumming the interrupt code." In 1996, this term and the practice it describes are semi-obsolete. In elder days, John McCarthy (inventor of LISP) used to compare some efficiency-obsessed hackers among his students to "ski bums"; thus, optimization became "program bumming", and eventually just "bumming". 2. To squeeze out excess; to remove something in order to improve whatever it was removed from (without changing function; this distinguishes the process from a featurectomy). 3. n. A small change to an algorithm, program, or hardware device to make it more efficient. "This hardware bum makes the jump instruction faster." Usage: now uncommon, largely superseded by v. tune (and n. tweak, hack), though none of these exactly capture sense 2. All these uses are rare in Commonwealth hackish, because in the parent dialects of English the noun `bum' is a rude synonym for `buttocks' and the verb `bum' for buggery. BUM English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) bum bʌm n. 1 buttocks, posterior, hindquarters, fundament, behind, rump, bottom, behind, derriëre, rear end, backside, seat, rear, Colloq Brit arse, US fanny, can, hinie, tush, tushy or tushie, tokus or tochis or tuchis, keister or keester, ass: Why don't you get off your fat bum and go out and get a job?! 2 tramp, panhandler, beggar, vagrant, loafer, drifter, vagabond, hobo, derelict, gypsy; Brit caird, tinker, traveller; US (shopping-)bag lady: Along the Bowery the doorways and pavements are strewn with bums. 3 improper, unjustified, false, trumped up, untrue, fabricated, made-up, bogus: That auto theft charge was a bum rap, but he still served 18 months. --adj. 4 bad, awful, unfair, dishonest, poor, rotten, Slang lousy, crummy: I still think you got a bum deal on that toaster. --v. 5 borrow, beg, sponge, Colloq scrounge, cadge, touch, put the touch on, US mooch, hit, hit up: Can I bum a cigarette from you? Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 223 Moby Thesaurus words for "bum": 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, bottom, brannigan, budmash, bumble, bummer, burr, bust, butt, buzz, cadge, cadger, caitiff, can, carouse, cheeks, cheesy, count ties, crappy, creepy, crummy, derelict, derriere, devil, dirty, dissatisfactory, divagate, do-nothing, dogie, dolittle, drift, drifter, drone, drunk, drunkard, elbow bender, faineant, fanny, flit, floater, gad, gad about, gallivant, gamin, gamine, ginhound, go about, go the rounds, godawful, goldbrick, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof off, goshawful, grim, guttersnipe, hairy, hind end, hit, hit the road, hit the trail, hit up, hobo, homeless waif, hooch hound, hum, human wreck, icky, idler, jag, jaunt, keister, knock about, knock around, landloper, laze, lazy, lazybones, lazzarone, loaf, loafer, loiter, loll, losel, lounge, lowlife, lush, lusher, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, meander, mendicant, mendicant friar, mendicant order, mooch, moocher, mucker, mudlark, no-good, nomadize, panhandle, panhandler, pass the hat, pauvre diable, peregrinate, pererrate, piker, pilgarlic, poor, poor creature, poor devil, posterior, prat, prowl, punk, purr, putrid, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, ramble, range, roam, rotten, rounder, rove, rum hound, rummy, rump, run about, rusty-dusty, sad case, sad sack, saunter, schnorrer, scrounge, scrounger, shitty, ski bum, skid-row bum, slouch, slug, slugabed, soak, souse, sponge, stern, stew, stiff, stinking, stinky, straggle, stray, street Arab, street arab, street urchin, stroll, strum, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, swillbelly, swillbowl, swillpot, tail, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, thrum, touch, traipse, tramp, truant, tuchis, turnpiker, tush, tushy, unsatisfactory, up, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagabondize, vagrant, vaurien, vomity, waif, waifs and strays, walk the tracks, wander, wassail, wastrel, wayfare, whir, whiz, wino, worthless fellow, wretch, wrong, yecchy |
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