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The body part and the insult that both mean you're sitting on your own argument.
means A casual British/Irish word for the buttocks, and also an informal word (chiefly American) for a lazy, worthless, or homeless person — or a verb meaning to scrounge something off someone.
from Murky, and honestly admitted to be so by most dictionaries. The buttocks sense pops up in English in the 14th century, likely just an echoic, mouth-feel word — short, round, slightly comic-sounding, with cousins in other Germanic languages but no tidy single root. The 'worthless loafer' sense is a 19th-century American development, possibly from German 'Bummler' (a loafer or idler, from 'bummeln,' to stroll aimlessly) crossing into English via immigrant communities — which also gave rise to 'bum around' and 'bumming a ride.' The two senses merged into one word by coincidence, not kinship.
- brit vs us
- means buttocks in uk, vagrant in us
- verb form
- to bum is to mooch shamelessly
- bum rap
- unfair blame, no relation to actual bums
- bum deal
- worthless, like a counterfeit handshake