bum
Noun
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A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible (synset 110559272)
"only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'"is a type of: disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
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A vagrant (synset 110742949)
"a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums"is a type of: clochard, drifter, floater, vagabond, vagrant - a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of supportsubtypes: dosser, street person - someone who sleeps in any convenient place
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Person who does no work (synset 110217586)
"a lazy bum"is a type of: nonworker - a person who does nothingsubtypes:
- clock watcher - a worker preoccupied with the arrival of quitting time
- couch potato - an idler who spends much time on a couch (usually watching television)
- dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger, mope - someone who wastes time
- dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer - someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
- daydreamer, woolgatherer - someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming
- goldbrick, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account - an idle worthless person
- lazybones - a lazy person
- lie-abed, slugabed - a person who stays in bed until a relatively late hour
- loon - a worthless lazy fellow
- shirker, slacker - a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime)
- slug, sluggard - an idle slothful person
- spiv - a person without employment who makes money by various dubious schemes; goes about smartly dressed and having a good time
- sunbather - someone who basks in the sunshine in order to get a suntan
- trifler - one who behaves lightly or not seriously
- whittler - someone who whittles (usually as an idle pastime)
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The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on (synset 105566889)
"he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"is a type of: body part - any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity
Adjective
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Of very poor quality;
Flimsy (synset 302354508)domain usage: colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speechsimilar to: inferior - of low or inferior quality
Verb
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Ask for and get free;
Be a parasite (synset 202275249)is a type of: obtain - come into possession ofsubtypes: freeload - live off somebody's generosity -
Be lazy or idle (synset 202645690)
"Her son is just bumming around all day"same as: arse about, arse around, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, loll, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time
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