bum boat
A boat attending ships to retail greens, drams, &c. commonly rowed by a woman; a kind of floating chandler's shop,
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bum fodder
Soft paper for the necessary house or torchecul.
bum rap
An unfair or false accusation
bum rush
to rush or attack someone or something suddenly and forcefully
bum sex
Anal sex.
bum steer
Misleading or false information
bum trap
A sheriff's officer who arrests debtors. Ware hawke! the bum traps are fly to our panney; keep a good look out, the bailiffs know where our house is situated.
bum's rush
to forcibly or quickly eject someone from a place
bum-bailiff
A sheriff’s-officer—a term, some say, derived from the proximity which this gentleman generally maintains to his victims. Blackstone says it is a corruption of "bound bailiff." A BUM-BAILIFF was generally called "bummy."
bum-curtain
An old name for academical gowns when they were worn scant and short, especially those of the students of St. John’s College.—Camb. Univ. Any ragged or short academical gown.
bumble
To muffle. BUMBLE-FOOTED, club-footed, or awkward in the gait.
bumble-puppy
A game played in public-houses on a large stone, placed in a slanting direction, on the lower end of which holes are excavated, and numbered like the holes in a bagatelle-table. The player rolls a stone ball, or marble, from the higher end, and according to the number of the hole it falls into the game is counted. It is undoubtedly the very ancient game of Troule-in-madame.
bumbles
Coverings for the eyes of horses that shy in harness.
bumbo
Brandy, water, and sugar; also the negro name for the private parts of a woman.
bumbrusher
An usher at a school.
bumclink
In the Midland counties the inferior beer brewed for haymakers and harvest labourers. Derivation obvious.
bumfiddle
bum; bottom
bumfiddle
The backside, the breech. See ARS MUSICA.
Bumfuck, Egypt
A remote or inaccessible place
bumhole
The anus.
bumkin
A raw country fellow.
bummer
Literally one who sits or idles about; a loafer; one who sponges upon his acquaintances. In California, men who profess to be journalists, and so obtain free dinners and drinks, are called "literary BUMMERS." Although the term is not much in use in this country, the profession of bumming, both literary and otherwise, is freely practised.
bump and grind
a tedious or exhausting routine
bump and run
a golf shot that runs along the ground after a low bounce
bump in the road
A minor problem or obstacle
bump into
Meet someone unexpectedly
bump off
to kill or murder someone
bump up
to increase or upgrade something
bumper
A full glass; in all likelihood from its convexity or bump at the top: some derive it from a full glass formerly drunk to the health of the pope--AU BON PERE.
bumper
According to Johnson from "bump," but probably from French BON PÈRE, the fixed toast in monastic life of old, now used for "full measure." A match at quoits, bowls, &c., may end in a "BUMPER game," if the play and score be all on one side. BUMPER is used in sporting and theatrical circles to denote a benefit which is one in reality as well as in name.
bumper crop
An exceptionally large or successful yield
bumping
A ceremony performed on boys perambulating the bounds of the parish on Whit-monday, when they have their posteriors bumped against the stones marking the boundaries, in order to fix them in their memory.
bumpoff
A murder.
bumptious
Arrogant, self-sufficient. One on very good terms with himself is said to be BUMPTIOUS.
bumshoving
Anal sex.
bumtrap
A bailiff.
bun
To smoke cannabis.
bun
A common name for a rabbit, also for the monosyllable. To touch bun for luck; a practice observed among sailors going on a cruize.
bun fight
a chaotic and competitive situation
bunce
Costermongers’ perquisites; the money obtained by giving light weight, &c.; costermongers’ goods sold by boys on commission. In fact anything which is clear profit or gain is said to be "all BUNCE." Probably a corruption of bonus; BONE, or BONER, being the slang for good. BUNCE, Grose gives as the cant word for money.
bunch of fives
A fist.
bunda
Ass, butt.
bundle
"to BUNDLE a person off," i.e., to pack him off, send him flying.
bundle of energy
A person who is very energetic and active
bundle of joy
A newborn baby, especially one that brings happiness
bundle of laughs
Someone very amusing or entertaining
bundle of nerves
Extremely anxious or nervous
bundle of sticks
Msop, in one of his fables, shows that sticks one by one may be readily broken ; not so when several are bound together in a bundle. The lesson taught is that "Union gives strength.
bundle off
to send someone away quickly
Bundle Off
Get away. To bundle a person off, is to send him away unceremoniously.
Bundles for Britain
An organization founded in U.S.A., January 1940, by Mrs. Wales Latham to send comfort parcels to Britain during World War II.
bundling
A man and woman sleeping in the same bed, he with his small clothes, and she with her petticoats on; an expedient practised in America on a scarcity of beds, where, on such an occasion, husbands and parents frequently permitted travellers to bundle with their wives and daughters. This custom is now abolished. See Duke of Rochefoucalt's Travels in America,
bundling
Men and women sleeping together, where the divisions of the house will not permit of better or more decent accommodation, with all their clothes on. BUNDLING was originally courting done in bed, the lovers being tied or bundled up to prevent undue familiarities. The practice still obtains in some parts of Wales.
bung
The human anus.
bung
The landlord of a public-house. Much in use among sporting men.
bung upwards
Said of a person lying on his face.
bung your eye
Drink a dram; strictly speaking, to drink till one's eye is bunged up or closed.
bung-hole
The anus.
bungalowed
Very drunk.
bungus
Anus.
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