bum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: bums
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: Okay, everyone sit on your bum and try and touch your toes.
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:bum.
synonyms: word: 'tocks
word: arse
word: arse cheeks
word: ass
word: ass cheeks
word: back
word: backside
word: batty
word: behind
word: blessed assurance
word: booty
word: botty
word: bottom
word: bum
word: bum cheeks
word: buns
word: butt
word: butt cheeks
word: buttocks
word: caboose
word: cheeks
word: derriere
word: fanny
word: fourth point of contact
word: gluteus maximus
word: glutes
word: gooseberry-grinder
word: gyatt
raw_tags: used jokingly by generation alpha preteens
word: heinie
word: hiney
word: hinderlin
word: hurdies
word: jacksie
word: keester
word: keister
word: moon
word: moneymaker
word: nates
word: nether cheeks
word: patootie
word: peach
word: posterior
word: rear
word: rear end
word: rump
word: seat
word: sit upon
word: tail
word: toches
word: tush
word: tushie
glosses: The buttocks.
examples: text: John said that when he was little he stuck his finger in his bum and tasted his poopies and it was good.
ref: 2013, Steven L. Ablon, Daniel P. Brown, Edward J. Khantzian, Human Feelings: Explorations in Affect Development and Meaning, page 132:
text: What could the man possibly be hiding up his bum anyway?
ref: 2015, Jonathan Nicholas, Who'd be a copper?: Thirty years a frontline British cop:
text: 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])?
ref: 2016, Lisa Keenan-Lindsay, Cheryl Sams, Constance L. O'Connor, Maternal Child Nursing Care in Canada, page 118:
text: […] and said Daddy had put a finger up her bum.
ref: 2017, Jean Renvoize, Innocence Destroyed: A Study of Child Sexual Abuse:
synonyms: word: a-hole
word: anus
word: arsehole
word: arse
word: asscunt
word: asshole
word: asspussy
word: ass
word: back alley
word: back door
word: back passage
word: balloon knot
word: batty
word: batty hole
word: bootyhole
word: bottom
word: brown eye
word: browneye
word: bumhole
word: bum
word: bung-hole
word: bunghole
word: bungus
word: butthole
word: buttonhole
word: chocolate channel
word: chocolate starfish
word: chuff
word: cinnamon ring
word: clacka
word: clacker
word: cornhole
word: craphole
word: cumhole
word: dinger
word: ding
word: dock
word: dookie hole
word: dung funnel
word: exit hole
word: fartbox
word: farthole
word: fourth point of contact
word: freckle
word: fuckhole
word: fudge tunnel
word: fundament
word: Gary Glitter
word: gump stump
word: Hershey highway
word: jacksie
word: jacksy
word: keister
word: leather cheerio
word: love hole
word: other end
word: poop chute
word: pooper
word: poophole
word: rectum
word: ringpiece
word: rosebud
word: rusty sheriff's badge
word: shithole
word: shitter
word: sluthole
word: smelly freckle
word: starfish
word: stinkhole
word: tewel
word: tooter
word: tradesman's entrance
word: turd cutter
word: vent
word: wazoo
word: where the sun don't shine
word: windpipe
word: ying-yang
glosses: The anus.
examples: text: Go for a bum
glosses: An act of anal sex.