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Definition: BUMMED |
BUMMEDImperative & past participle1. Of Bum |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | BUMMED. Arrested. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Crosswords: BUMMED |
| Specialty definitions using "BUMMED": GEOS. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Then he bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light (The Gambler; performing artist: Kenny Rogers) | |
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| "Close-up" by Kyle Prawel Commentary: "A close up image of a computer case. I really dig the coloring on the reflection, but was bummed to see some of it out of focus." |
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 | Sigh; blue; blue funk; bummed out; cast down; crestfallen; crummy; dejected; despondent; destroyed; disconsolate; dispirited; down; downcast; downhearted; dragged; fed up; glum; grim; hurting; in pain; let down; low; low down; low-spirited; lugubrious; me. |
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| "BUMMED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "BUMMED" is used about 3 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BUMMED": bummed-out. | |
Ending with "BUMMED": high-bummed, spotty-bummed. | |
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| 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 |
bummed | 33 |
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| Language | Translations for "BUMMED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | lungerte herum (mooched). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 気が重い (bummed out, feel depressed, heavyhearted, something lying heavy on one's mind). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きがおもい (bummed out, feel depressed, heavyhearted, something lying heavy on one's mind). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ummedbay.(various references) | |
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Misspellings | |
"BUMMED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baumet, bommen, Boumerda, Brummitt, bumah, bume, bumed, bumhead, bummel, tummed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BUMMED" (pronounced bu"md) |
| 3 | -u" m d | drummed, gummed, numbed, plumbed, succumbed, summed, thumbed. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-m-m-u" | |
-2 letters: bedu, dumb. | |
-3 letters: bed, bud, bum, deb, dub, due, emu, med, mem, mud, mum, umm. | |
-4 letters: be, de, ed, em, me, mm, mu, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-m-m-u" | |
+1 letter: mumbled. | |
+3 letters: ombudsmen. | |
+4 letters: bemurmured, cummerbund, molybdenum. | |
+5 letters: cummerbunds, molybdenums. | |
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