bum

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   person who does no work

   a lazy bum

2. 2
   verb

   to ask for and get free

   Some people claim not to smoke, but they bum lots of cigarettes.

3. 3
   verb

   to be lazy or idle

   I should be productive tomorrow, but I'll probably just bum around all day.

4. 4
   noun

   The buttocks.

   Okay, everyone sit on your bum and try and touch your toes.

5. 5
   noun

   The anus.

   John said that when he was little he stuck his finger in his bum and tasted his poopies and it was good.

6. 6
   noun

   An act of anal sex.

   Go for a bum

7. 7
   verb

   To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.

   Your bars are fake and my bars are real; / Is it true you got bummed on a field?

8. 8
   intj

   An expression of annoyance.

   (more vulgar)

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”). The anal sex senses (noun and verb), as well as the adjective (esp. the first) sense, are expletive-avoiding (…