"bum steer" meaning in English

See bum steer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: en-au-bum steer.ogg [Australia] Forms: bum steers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bum steer (plural bum steers)
  1. (idiomatic) Bad advice or information, regardless of intention. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-bum_steer-en-noun-9EAApRyR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for bum steer meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bum steers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bum steer (plural bum steers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977, Kingsley Amis, Harold's years: impressions from the New Statesman and the Spectator",
          "text": "He never, so far as I knew, gave me a bum steer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Bad advice or information, regardless of intention."
      ],
      "id": "en-bum_steer-en-noun-9EAApRyR",
      "links": [
        [
          "Bad",
          "bad"
        ],
        [
          "advice",
          "advice"
        ],
        [
          "information",
          "information"
        ],
        [
          "intention",
          "intention"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Bad advice or information, regardless of intention."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-bum steer.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c8/En-au-bum_steer.ogg/En-au-bum_steer.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/En-au-bum_steer.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bum steer"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bum steers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bum steer (plural bum steers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977, Kingsley Amis, Harold's years: impressions from the New Statesman and the Spectator",
          "text": "He never, so far as I knew, gave me a bum steer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Bad advice or information, regardless of intention."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Bad",
          "bad"
        ],
        [
          "advice",
          "advice"
        ],
        [
          "information",
          "information"
        ],
        [
          "intention",
          "intention"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Bad advice or information, regardless of intention."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-bum steer.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c8/En-au-bum_steer.ogg/En-au-bum_steer.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/En-au-bum_steer.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bum steer"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.