bums

Meaning of bums

plural noun
  1. a vagrant.
    bums had been known to wander up to their door and ask for a sandwich
  2. a person who devotes a great deal of time to a specified activity.
    a ski bum
verb, 3rd person present
  1. get by asking or begging.
    they tried to bum money off us
    she bummed a cigarette from me
    I bummed a ride into town with him

mid 19th century: probably from bummer.

plural noun
  1. a person's buttocks or anus.
    if you sit there you'll get a cold bum

late Middle English: of unknown origin.

Information about bums

  • The singular form of bums is: bum.
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Hyphenation of bums

bums

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • bums is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

bums synonyms

Meaning a person who travels from place to place on foot in search of work or as a vagrant or beggar:

tramp

Meaning a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging:

vagrant

Meaning a person who wanders from place to place without a home or job:

vagabond

Meaning a person without a home, job, or property:

derelict

Meaning a person who travels from place to place:

itinerant

Meaning a person who is travelling or who often travels:

traveller

Meaning a person who is continually moving from place to place, without any fixed home or job:

drifter

Meaning a person who travels aimlessly; a traveller:

wanderer

Meaning a person who walks along a beach looking for valuable or interesting items:

beachcomber

Meaning a person who has been rejected or ostracized by their society or social group:

outcast

Meaning an outcast:

pariah

Meaning a person, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food:

beggar

Meaning a beggar:

mendicant

Meaning a homeless person; a tramp or vagrant:

hobo

Meaning an agent who collects or distributes the proceeds of illicit activities:

bagman

Meaning an alcoholic drink taken at sunset:

sundowner

Meaning a person carrying a swag or bundle of belongings:

swagman

Meaning a homeless person:

streety

Meaning a young person who is homeless or travels constantly, has a shabby appearance, and rejects conventional values:

crusty

Meaning a person who sleeps rough; a tramp:

dosser

Meaning seek to obtain (something, typically food or money) at the expense or through the generosity of others or by stealth:

scrounge

Meaning ask for food or money as charity:

beg

Meaning take and use (something belonging to someone else) with the intention of returning it:

borrow

Meaning wipe or clean with a wet sponge or cloth:

sponge

Meaning become encrusted or covered with a scab or scabs:

scab

Meaning ask for or obtain (something to which one is not strictly entitled):

cadge

Meaning ask for or obtain (something) without paying for it:

mooch

Meaning shirk responsibility and live off the efforts of others:

bludge

Meaning either of the two round fleshy parts of the human body that form the bottom:

buttocks

Meaning a person's buttocks:

bottom, rear, rump, backside, seat, behind, posterior, tail, heinie, keister

Meaning either side of the face below the eye:

cheeks

Meaning the hind legs and adjoining parts of a quadruped:

hindquarters

Meaning a buttock and thigh considered together, in a human or animal:

haunches

Meaning (of a person or their manner) serious and unrelenting, especially in the assertion of authority and exercise of discipline:

stern

Meaning the foundation or basis of something:

fundament

Meaning a child's word for a person's bottom:

botty

Meaning an incompetent or stupid person; an idiot:

prat

Meaning a person's bottom:

jacksie

Meaning a push or blow, especially one given with the head:

butt

Meaning a woman's genitals:

fanny

Meaning expressing disapproval, impatience, or dismissal:

tush

Meaning a flour pudding boiled or steamed in a cloth bag:

duff

Meaning a small cake, typically containing dried fruit:

buns

Meaning valuable stolen goods, especially those seized in war:

booty

Meaning a railway wagon with accommodation for the train crew, typically attached to the end of the train:

caboose

Meaning a girlfriend or attractive young woman:

patootie

Meaning a person's buttocks or anus:

tuchis, arse

Meaning a person's mouth:

bazoo

Meaning mad; insane:

batty

Meaning the buttocks:

nates

Meaning the part of a cannon behind the bore:

breech

Meaning an animal of the horse family, which is typically smaller than a horse and has longer ears and a braying call:

ass

Anagrams of bums

bmus

Words that rhyme with bums

sebums, stumblebums, albums, crumbums, plumbums, stewbums

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