bum

Meaning

Noun

1. (informal) The buttocks.
2. (informal) The anus.

Verb

To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.

Intj

An expression of annoyance.

Verb

1. (colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
2. (colloquial) To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond.
3. (slang) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).

Adj

1. (slang) Of poor quality or highly undesirable.
2. (slang) Unfair.
3. (slang) Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.
4. (slang) Unpleasant or unhappy.

Verb

To depress; to make unhappy.

Verb

To make a murmuring or humming sound.

Synonyms

buttocks

bottom

arse

ass

🍑

tramp

butt

behind

backside

rump

hobo

buns

rear

posterior

rear end

vagrant

tush

derriere

fanny

hindquarters

tail

nates

keister

hind end

tail end

stern

seat

💺

prat

fundament

tooshie

cadge

can

back

🔙

idler

do-nothing

beggar

ragged

booty

vagabond

loafer

in rags

layabout

cheap

chintzy

tinny

crummy

punk

good-for-nothing

sleazy

cheesy

cadge

anus

asshole

beg

crumb

dirty dog

fuck off

git

grub

loaf

loll

lounge about

lowlife

mooch

ne’er-do-well

puke

rat

🐀

rotter

skunk

🦨

so-and-so

sponge

🧽

stinker

stinkpot

arse about

arse around

wander

wanderer

bum around

lounge around

bum about

frig around

loll around

waste one’s time

scum bag

panhandler

playboy

porn

gamin

drifter

tokhes

derelict

deplorable

rapscallion

schnorr

defective

dawdle

rectum

regrettable

arsehole

croup

runabout

scamp

coward

shnorr

catamountain

sloth

🦥

slothful

sluggard

bad

👎

inferiority of quality

cadger

lazy guy

hurdies

caboose

buttock

bump

ying-yang

finger fuck

too bad

tough

broken

breech

unfortunate

unhappy

☹️

unprepossessing

unpresentable

unsavory

unsavoury

used

beneath

bedding

fuckhole

dinger

weak

yob

berk

bootie

cornhole

crumbum

good-for-naught

bag lady

lazy person

back passage

arris

rascallion

unretentive

jacksy

inferior quality

hang around

homeless

hoodlum

hairy

ill

🤢

indolent

goof-off

lame

goof off

lazy

dories

good for nothing

loiter

hiney

loser

tuches

lout

toches

tuchus

goldbrick

clochard

no-account

off

offensive

panhandle

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bʌm/

Etymology

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”).