Bum: alternatives and connections

Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.

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Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.

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One who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant words.

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One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.

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One given to daydreams.

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A pannier, or basket.

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The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.

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Slow; sluggish; backward.

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A laggard.

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A lazy person.

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A sorry fellow; a worthless person; a rogue.

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One who lounges; ar idler.

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To be dull and spiritless.

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A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and…

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One who shirks.

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A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.

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One who indulges in lying abed; a sluggard.

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A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone.

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One who, or that which, trails.

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One who trifles.

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One who floats or swims.

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Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren.

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To be lazy or idle.

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To hold; to keep; to possess.

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A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.

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To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnat…

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Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.

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Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.

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One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the N…

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One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the N…

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The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

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The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of Hercules.

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The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.

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The buttocks, or hind part of an animal; the posteriors; the fundament; the bottom.

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A quadruped of the genus Equus (E. asinus), smaller than the horse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or domestic ass is pat…

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The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.

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On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill.

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The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.

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Alt. of But

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To carry, as a burden.

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an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.]

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A bargain; a purchase; cheapness.

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Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.

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A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off.

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Full of crumb or crumbs.

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Doing nothing; inactive; idle; lazy; as, a do-nothing policy.

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Foundation.

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See Geat.

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To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.

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One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard.

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Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.

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One who loafs; a lazy lounger.

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To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.

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The buttocks.

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Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior.

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To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.

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Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.

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One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the N…

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Early; soon.

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The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks.

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The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.

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Any one of several species of American musteline carnivores of the genus Mephitis and allied genera. They have two glands near the anus, secreting an…

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Wanting firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as, sleazy silk or muslin.

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Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae.

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The black tern.

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One who, or that which, stinks.

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An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's ves…

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Limitation; abridgment.

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Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin.

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To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

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An exclamation indicating check, rebuke, or contempt; as, tush, tush! do not speak of it.

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