Bum vs. Bun

Bum vs. Bun — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Bum and Bun

Bumnoun

The buttocks.

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

Bunnoun

A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced.

Bumnoun

The anus.

Bunnoun

A tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head.

Bumnoun

A person.

Bunnoun

(Ireland) A cupcake.

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Bumnoun

A homeless person, usually a man.

Bunnoun

A drunken spree.

Bumnoun

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

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!

Bunnoun

A newbie.

Bumnoun

A player or racer who often performs poorly.

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

Bunnoun

A buttock.

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Bumnoun

(colloquial) A drinking spree.

Bunnoun

(informal) vagina

Bumnoun

(dated) A humming noise.

Bunnoun

A rabbit or sometimes a squirrel.

Bumnoun

(obsolete) A bumbailiff.

Bunnoun

marijuana cigarette, joint

Bumverb

To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.

Bunnoun

A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3{{nbsp}}cm.

Bumverb

To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.

Can I bum a cigarette off you?

Bunverb

To smoke cannabis.

Bumverb

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

I think I'll just bum around downtown for awhile until dinner.

Bunverb

To shoot.

Bumverb

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

Bunnoun

small rounded bread either plain or sweet

Bumverb

To depress; to make unhappy.

Bumverb

(intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.

Buminterjection

(UK) An expression of annoyance.

Bumadjective

Of poor quality or highly undesirable.

bum note

Bumadjective

Unfair.

bum deal

Bumadjective

Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.

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

Bumadjective

Unpleasant.

He had a bum trip on that mescaline.

Bumnoun

a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible;

only a rotter would do thatkill the ratthrow the bum outyou cowardly little pukes!the British call a contemptible person a `git'

Bumnoun

a disreputable vagrant;

a homeless tramphe tried to help the really down-and-out bums

Bumnoun

person who does no work;

a lazy bum

Bumnoun

the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on;

he deserves a good kick in the buttare you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?

Bumverb

ask for and get free; be a parasite

Bumverb

be lazy or idle;

Her son is just bumming around all day

Bumadjective

of very poor quality