bum

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n. 游荡者, 懒鬼, 闹饮 a. 没有价值的 vi. 过游民生活, 乞讨, 流浪 vt. 乞讨

发音

CA /bʌm/
AU /bʌm/

词形变化

bums 复数 bums 三单 bumming 现在分词 bummed 过去式 bummed 过去分词 bummer 比较级 bummer bummest bummest 最高级

教材释义与例句

形容词

无价值的;劣质的;很不愉快的

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    The buttocks.

    非正式

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

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:bum.

  2. 2.

    The anus.

    非正式
  3. 3.

    An act of anal sex.

    俚语 粗俗

    Go for a bum

  4. 1.

    A homeless person, usually a man.

    瘪三

    乞丐

    非正式 贬义
  5. 2.

    A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.

    非正式 贬义 引申义

    Fred is becoming a bum—he’s not even bothering to work more than once a month.

    That mechanic’s a bum—he couldn’t fix a yo-yo.

    That guy keeps interrupting the concert. Throw the bum out!

  6. 3.

    A player or racer who often performs poorly.

    非正式 体育

    Trade him to another team, he’s a bum!

  7. 4.

    A drinking spree.

    非正式
  8. 1.

    A humming noise.

    非正式 过时 俚语
  9. 1.

    A bumbailiff.

    非正式 废旧 俚语
v.
  1. 1.

    To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.

    爱尔兰 英国 非正式 及物
  2. 1.

    [with off or (nonstandard) off of] To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.

    非正式 及物

    Can I bum a cigarette off you?

  3. 2.

    To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond.

    非正式 不及物

    I think I’ll just bum around downtown for a while until dinner.

  4. 3.

    To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).

    非正式 俚语 及物
  5. 1.

    To depress; to make unhappy.

    非正式 俚语
  6. 1.

    To make a murmuring or humming sound.

    非正式 不及物 俚语
adj.
  1. 1.

    Of poor quality or highly undesirable.

    非正式 俚语

    What kind of bum note was that??

    The defensive line made a bum rush on the quarterback.

  2. 2.

    Unfair.

    非正式 俚语

    The union reps gave us a bum deal!

  3. 3.

    Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.

    非正式 俚语

    I can’t play football anymore on account of my bum knee.

  4. 4.

    Unpleasant or unhappy.

    非正式 俚语

    He had a bum trip on that mescaline.

interj.
  1. 1.

    An expression of annoyance.

    爱尔兰 英国 委婉

    (more vulgar)

词汇关系

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词源

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 (i.e. Bowdlerized) shortenings of bumfuck.

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