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as a verb: - 1
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as an adjective: - 1
bum
noun
1 bum
A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible:
— Throw the bum out.
synonyms: crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot ... show more.
Dutch: snertvent, rioolrat, stinker, bietser, boef, booswicht, element, galgeaas, galgebrok, galgenaas, gannef, goorlap, klaploper, kwaaddoener, schurk, slechterik, smeerkees, smeerpoets, snoodaard, spitsboef, taddik, toddik, uitvreter, viespeuk, viezerik, vuilik, vuilpeuk, vuilpoes, zwijnjak ... show more
2 bum
A vagrant:
— He tried to help the really down-and-out bums.
synonyms: hobo, tramp.
Roget 767:
petitioner,
solicitor,
applicant;
suppliant,
supplicant;
suitor,
candidate,
claimant,
postulant,
aspirant,
competitor,
bidder;
place hunter,
pot hunter;
prizer†;
seeker.
beggar,
mendicant,
moocher,
panhandler,
freeloader,
sponger,
mumper†,
sturdy beggar,
cadger;
hotel runner,
runner,
steerer [U.S.],
tout,
touter†.
[poor person]
pauper,
homeless person,
hobo,
bum,
tramp,
bindle stiff,
bo,
knight of the road
(poverty)
804;
hippie,
flower child;
hard core unemployed;
welfare client,
welfare case.
canvasser,
bagman
etc.
758;
salesman.
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Dutch: dakloze, vagebond, zwerver, landloper
3 bum
Person who does no work:
— A lazy bum.
synonyms: do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer.
Dutch: luiaard, nietsnut, rentenier
Polish: leniuch, leser, leń, leniuszek, leniwiec, nierób
4 bum
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 ... show more.
Dutch: achterste, achtersteven, achterwerk, batterij, bibs, bips, derrière, fundament, gat, hol, kont, krent, posterieur, reet, tooches, zitvlak ... show more
Polish: cztery litery, pupa, tyłek, zadek
verb
1 bum
Ask for and get free; be a parasite.
synonyms: cadge, grub, mooch, sponge.
Dutch: bedelen, bietsen, schooien, schooieren
2 bum
Be lazy or idle:
— Her son is just bumming around all day.
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 ... show more.
Dutch: dagdieven, freewheelen, lanterfanten, leeglopen, luieren, luilakken, luiwammesen, lummelen, niksen, rondbanjeren, rondhangen, rondlummelen, slabakken, slampampen, slungelen, stilzitten, straatslijpen ... show more
adjective
1 bum
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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