Bum vs. Vagrant
Difference Between Bum and Vagrant
Bumnoun
The buttocks.
Okay, everyone sit on your bum and try and touch your toes.Vagrantnoun
A person without a home; a wanderer.
Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighborhood begging for food.Bumnoun
The anus.
Vagrantnoun
An animal, typically a bird, found outside its species’ usual range.
Bumnoun
A person.
Vagrantnoun
(entomology) A widely-distributed Asian butterfly, Vagrans egista, family Nymphalidae.
Bumnoun
A homeless person, usually a man.
Vagrantadjective
Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
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!Vagrantadjective
Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation.
a vagrant beggarBumnoun
A player or racer who often performs poorly.
Trade him to another team, he's a bum!Vagrantnoun
a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
Bumnoun
(colloquial) A drinking spree.
Vagrantadjective
continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another;
a drifting double-dealerthe floating populationvagrant hippies of the sixtiesBumnoun
(dated) A humming noise.
Bumnoun
(obsolete) A bumbailiff.
Bumverb
To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
Bumverb
To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
Can I bum a cigarette off you?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.Bumverb
To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
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 noteBumadjective
Unfair.
bum dealBumadjective
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 bumsBumnoun
person who does no work;
a lazy bumBumnoun
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 dayBumadjective
of very poor quality
