bum

From English boom with orthographic adaptation.


bum

Okay, everyone sit on your bum and try and touch your toes.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bum.

(informal or childish, chiefly Commonwealth) The buttocks.

John said that when he was little he stuck his finger in his bum and tasted his poopies and it was good.

2013, Steven L. Ablon, Daniel P. Brown, Edward J. Khantzian, Human Feelings: Explorations in Affect Development and Meaning, page 132:

What could the man possibly be hiding up his bum anyway?

2015, Jonathan Nicholas, Who'd be a copper?: Thirty years a frontline British cop:

Do you have intercourse (i.e., Do you penetrate your partner in the vagina or anus [bum]? Or does your partner penetrate your vagina or anus [bum])?

2016, Lisa Keenan-Lindsay, Cheryl Sams, Constance L. O'Connor, Maternal Child Nursing Care in Canada, page 118:

[…] and said Daddy had put a finger up her bum.

2017, Jean Renvoize, Innocence Destroyed: A Study of Child Sexual Abuse:

(informal or childish, chiefly Commonwealth) The anus.

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”).


bum

Your bars are fake and my bars are real; / Is it true you got bummed on a field?

2016 December 3, “Soph Aspin Send”, performed by Millie B:

(UK, Ireland, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.

en-verb

bum (third-person singular simple present bums, present participle bumming, simple past and past participle bummed)

bums (present singular third-person)
bumming (participle present)
bummed (participle past)
bummed (past)


bum

(more vulgar)

Maxine tried hers. ‘Oh bum,’ she said crossly. ‘The sugar isn’t sugar. It’s salt.’

(UK, Ireland, childish, euphemistic) An expression of annoyance.


bum

(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A homeless person, usually a man.

Fred is becoming a bum—he’s not even bothering to work more than once a month.

That mechanic’s a bum—he couldn’t fix a yo-yo.

That guy keeps interrupting the concert. Throw the bum out!

You’re a bum / You’re a punk / You’re an old slut on junk / Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed

1987, “Fairytale of New York”, performed by The Pogues:

Man who do you just think you are? / A silly bum with seven stars

1988, Michael Weikath, “Keeper of the Seven Keys”, in Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II, performed by Helloween:

(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.

Trade him to another team, he’s a bum!

Seabiscuit, wrote another reporter, “was a hero in California and a pretty fair sort of horse in the midwest. In the east, however, he was just a ‘bumʼ”

2001, Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend:

(colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.

1864, back-formation from bummer, from German Bummler (“loafer”), from bummeln (“to loaf”).


bum

Can I bum a cigarette off you?

(transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.

I think I’ll just bum around downtown for a while until dinner.

(intransitive, colloquial) To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond.

(transitive, slang, British) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).

→ French: bummer

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: bomma


bum

bum note

"So I can see my finish with that firm when this bum show is over." "Well, I think you're silly, the way you go out of your way to get McIntyre's goat. You do, don't deny it."

1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 4:

(slang) Of poor quality or highly undesirable.

a bum deal

I can’t play football anymore on account of my bum knee.

(slang) Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.

He had a bum trip on that mescaline.

en-adj

bum (comparative bummer, superlative bummest)

bummer (comparative)
bummest (superlative)


bum

English men bum there [Stirling] as thick as bees.

(intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.


bum

About her Chariot, and behind, / Were Sergeants, Bums of every kind, / Tip-staffs, and all those Officers, / That squeeze a Living out of Tears.

1705, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees:


bum

boom barrier, boom gate (a bar or pole that can be lowered or raised to controll the traffic)

(figurative) customs (government agency that handles taxes of imported goods)

From Dutch slagboom (“boom barrier, boom gate”) or boom (“beam, barrier, tree, pole”). Doublet of bom.


bum

(economics, business) boom (a period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity)


bum

head

bum m (genitive singular bum, nominative plural bumanna)

bum (genitive singular)
bumanna (nominative plural)
bum (indefinite nominative singular)
bumanna (indefinite nominative plural)
a bhum (indefinite singular vocative)
a bhumanna (indefinite plural vocative)
bum (genitive indefinite singular)
bumanna (genitive indefinite plural)
bum (dative indefinite singular)
bumanna (dative indefinite plural)
an bum (definite nominative singular)
na bumanna (definite nominative plural)
an bhum (definite genitive singular)
na mbumanna (definite genitive plural)
leis an mbum (dative definite singular)
don bhum (dative definite singular)
leis na bumanna (dative definite plural)
bum
bhum
mbum


bum

bum (nominative singular)
bumy (nominative plural)
bumu (genitive singular)
bumów (genitive plural)
bumowi (dative singular)
bumom (dative plural)
bum (accusative singular)
bumy (accusative plural)
bumem (instrumental singular)
bumami (instrumental plural)
bumie (locative singular)
bumach (locative plural)
bumie (singular vocative)
bumy (plural vocative)


bum

O "bum" do gado só veio com a crise do arroz no final de 80 para início de 90;

2023, Djalma do Nascimento Sousa, chapter 145, in Memórias do Sul do Maranhão, Maranhão, published 2023, page VIII:

The cattle boom only came with the rice crisis in the late 80s and early 90s;


bum

(Kajkavian) first-person singular future of biti


bum

boom (used to suggest the sound of an explosion)

boom (used to suggest something happening suddenly and unexpectedly)


bum

bums (nominative plural)
bum (nominative singular)
bums (nominative plural)
buma (genitive singular)
bumas (genitive plural)
bume (dative singular)
bumes (dative plural)
bumi (accusative singular)
bumis (accusative plural)
o bum! (singular vocative)
o bums! (plural vocative)
bumu (predicative singular)
bumus (plural predicative)