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Definition: BUMMER |
BUMMERNoun1. An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. |
Date "BUMMER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inactivity | Idler, drone, droil, dawdle, mopus; do-little faineant, dummy, sleeping partner; afternoon farmer; truant; (runaway) : bummer, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker, lounger, lazzarone; lubber, lubbard; slow coach; (slow.); opium eater, lotus eater; slug; lag, sluggard, slugabed; slumberer, dormouse, marmot; waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Bummer man! (Rock 'n' Roll Frankenstein; writing credit: Brian O'Hara; Vito Cannella) Ultimo bummer, dudes, I had my belly set on that heart board. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird) If I'm not mistaken, you've come back here to the house of loneliness and tears, to Daddy Downer and Brother Bummer, to come to some sort of decision about life, a life decision if you will. (Beautiful Girls; writing credit: Scott Rosenberg) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bummer! (1972) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Bummer. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Business | The capital group PHZ Bummer is the largest such firm in the Polish market. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BUMMER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BUMMER" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bummer | 49 |
bummer kit | 17 |
bummer car kit | 6 |
bummer hummer | 4 |
body bummer kit | 4 |
bummer kit.com | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BUMMER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zhgënjim (anticlimax, balk, chagrin, disappointment, disillusion, disillusionment, frustration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | лентяй (chairwarmer, faineant, lay about, rounder, slacker, spiv). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | povaleè (bum, good for nothing, layabout, loafer, lounger, slob, vagabond). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | bad trip (bad trip, flip, flip-out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bummer (bad trip, flip, flip-out), bad trip (bad trip, flip, flip-out), te gek gaan (bad trip, flip, flip-out), slechte trip (bad trip, flip, flip-out), horror trip (bad trip, flip, flip-out), flippen (bad trip, flip, flip-out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bad trip, voyage désagréable, tripout, mauvais voyage, flip. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Müßiggänger (bummers, dallier, dalliers, idler, loafer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φλιπάρισμα (bad trip, flip, flip-out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lakmározás (bean-feast, bum, feasting, gorge), dőzsölés (bat, bender, blow-out, bum, debauchery, feasting, roistering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | brutto viaggio (bad trip, flip, flip-out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ummerbay bad trip (bad trip, flip, flip-out), vadio (apache, bohemian, cadger, gadder, highboy, hood, hoodoo, hooligan, landloper, landlouper, lazy guy, loafer, loon, lour, peddlar, Ranger, rowdy, ruffian, runabout, scourer, slothful, sluggard, stroller, vagabond, vagrant, Woodward), má viagem (bad trip, flip, flip-out). (various references) лентяй (do-nothing, faineant, lazybones, lazy-bones, poke, slacker, slob, slug, slug-abed, sluggard, truant, wag, work-shy). (various references) nešto neprijatno. (various references) sablista (borrower, cadger, scrounger, sponger), mal viaje (bad trip, flip, flip-out), mal trip (bad trip, flip, flip-out), gorrón (cadger, journal, mumper, pebble, pivot, scrounger, sponger). (various references) besvikelse (chagrin, come down, disappointment, discomfiture, disenchantment, letdown). (various references) สถานการ"์ที่น่าผิ"หวังหรือไม่พอใจ. (various references) serseri (adrift, beat, bum, dawdler, dosser, down and out, drifter, errant, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, hoodlum, hooligan, landloper, larrikin, layabout, lowlife, ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, never-do-well, no good, outcast, punk, rambler, rascal, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rounder, rover, runagate, stray, strayed, sundowner, swag man, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, varmint, wandering, yob), otlakçı (bum, cadger, free rider, freeloader, scrounger, shark, sponge, sponger), aylak (bum, dawdler, idle, Idler, layabout, loafer, loiterer, otiose, runabout, unemployed, vagabond, vagrant). (various references) ледар (bum, dawdle, dawdler, lazybones, lounger, poke, quitter, slow, sluggard, wag). (various references) người l m biếng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BUMMER": bummers. (additional references) | |
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"BUMMER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bammer, Baumber, baumler, Bemnor, bimer, bimmer, Bluemner, blumer, Bomer, bommen, bumah, bumber, bume, Bumer, bummar, bummber, bummel, bummerl, bummper. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BUMMER" (pronounced bu"mer) |
| 3 | -u" m er | comer, drummer, dumber, hummer, midsummer, plumber, summer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-m-m-r-u" | |
-1 letter: brume, umber. | |
-2 letters: berm, mure, rube. | |
-3 letters: bum, bur, emu, mem, mum, reb, rem, rub, rue, rum, umm, urb. | |
-4 letters: be, em, er, me, mm, mu, re, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-m-m-r-u" | |
+1 letter: bummers, mumbler. | |
+2 letters: bemurmur, mumblers. | |
+3 letters: bemurmurs, brummagem, lumberman, lumbermen. | |
+4 letters: bemurmured, brummagems, cumbersome, cummerbund, membranous. | |
+5 letters: bemurmuring, cummerbunds, multimember, unmemorable, unmemorably. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 55 4D 4D 45 52 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... ..- -- -- . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010101 01001101 01001101 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B U M M E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0055 004D 004D 0045 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)365547473952 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, Albanees, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | danisht, danishte, датски език, датски, dánský, dánština, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, dán, danese, dinamarquês, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | holandez, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holland, olandese, holandês, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã" |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, френски език, френски, francouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, francês, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | gjerman, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, tysker, Duitse, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, alemão, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, græker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, grego, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, ungarer, Hongaarse, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | италиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, italiener, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, russer, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, Spaans, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | suedez, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | thailænder, Thais, Thai, Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ |
Ukranian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | vietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamec, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamština, vietnameser, vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, в'"тнамець, в'"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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