Bum vs. Vagrant

Bum vs. Vagrant — Is There a Difference?
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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.

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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 beggar

Bumnoun

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

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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 sixties

Bumnoun

(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 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