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Meanings of bum in English

Portuguese
cu
Catalan
paner
Spanish
cachas
Wikidata

The fleshy part of the human body that one sits on.

      cu
      Portuguese
      vagabundo
      Catalan
      polissó
      Spanish
      vagabundo
      Wikidata

      A person abandoned by society, esp. a person without a permanent home and means of support.

            vagabundo
            Portuguese
            fulano
            Catalan
            cabró
            Spanish
            perro

            A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible.

                fulano
                Portuguese
                vagabundo
                Catalan
                mandrós
                Spanish
                vago

                Person who does no work.

                      vagabundo
                      Usage of bum in English
                      1
                      I remembered something Trapp had told me once about his bridge-bum days.
                      The cardturner
                      2
                      The trim, khaki-garbed enlistment officer rubs elbows with the lodging house bum.
                      Buttered Side Down: Stories
                      3
                      Guess the lamp is on the bum, but you hardly need that.
                      The Aeroplane Boys on the Wing; Or, Aeroplane Chums in the Tropi...
                      4
                      The law, missing the right quarry, descends on the slower-moving, harmless bum.
                      Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
                      5
                      I just couldn't resist giving him the bum's rush for a change.
                      Secret Sanction
                      6
                      What you boys let that old bum hang around you for anyway.
                      The Best Short Stories of 1915, and the Yearbook of the American...
                      7
                      They ain't going to be any bum testimony taken in this court.
                      The Rangeland Avenger
                      8
                      I'll get to that cheap bum in a way he won't forget.
                      The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot
                      9
                      That bum detective knows now that we're here to search the mine.
                      Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns; Or, The Light in Tunnel Six
                      10
                      If you stay up reading to-night we'll give you the bum's rush.
                      The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ...
                      11
                      Size up my hand beside Don Manuel's, and it looks pretty bum.
                      A Daughter of the Dons: A Story of New Mexico Today
                      12
                      Still, our graft ain't so bum, at that-ifwe work it right.
                      Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
                      13
                      A bum found him ninety minutes ago behind a 7-Eleven on Nuuanu.
                      Spider bones: a novel
                      14
                      The calendar is a bum way to measure the passage of time.
                      Water, stone, heart
                      15
                      Protean waved his hand in front of one of the bum's faces.
                      Shades of gray
                      16
                      For once, Ireland have not finished a campaign on a bum note.
                      The Irish Times