bum
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
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”).
Senses: examples: text: (more vulgar)
text: Maxine tried hers. ‘Oh bum,’ she said crossly. ‘The sugar isn’t sugar. It’s salt.’
ref: 2010, Jill Mansell, Sheer Mischief:
synonyms: arse
glosses: An expression of annoyance.
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word: bare-bum
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word: belfie
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word: builder's bum
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word: bum bag
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word: bumbaste
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word: bum boy
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word: bumboy
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word: bum-breathing
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word: bum-bum
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word: bum bum
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word: bum burp
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word: bum cheeks
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word: bum chum
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word: bum cleavage
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word: bum-clock
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word: bum crack
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word: bum-fluff
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word: bumfluff
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word: bum fluff
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word: bum-fluffed
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word: bum fodder
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word: bumfodder
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word: bumfoolery
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word: bumfreezer
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word: bumfuck
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word: Bumfuck
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word: bum-fuck nowhere
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word: bum fuck nowhere
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word: bum gun
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word: bum head
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word: bumhole
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word: bumload
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word: bumlord
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word: bum roll
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word: bum sex
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word: bumshoving
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word: bum shuffle
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word: bums in seats
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word: bum squabble
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word: bum-squabble
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word: bum squabbled
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word: bumster
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word: bumsters
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word: bumsucker
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word: bum-sucker
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word: bum-sucking
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word: bumtastic
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word: bumwad
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word: bum wine
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word: face like a slapped bum
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word: face like a smacked bum
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word: front bum
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word: head down, bum up
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word: kick up the bum
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word: land with one's bum in the butter
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word: pain in the bum
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word: shitbum
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word: smooth as a baby's bum
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word: squeaky bum time
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word: underbum