Bum

Definition: Bum

Bum

Adjective

1. (informal) of very poor quality.

Noun

1. A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!".

2. A disreputable vagrant.

3. Person who does no work.

4. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.

Verb

1. Ask for and get free; be a parasite.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bum" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Computing

19th Century Satire

Multilingual Slang

Slang

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

BUM

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Bum

Amusement

Festivity, merrymaking; party; (social gathering); blowout, hullabaloo, hoedown, bat, bum, bust, clambake, donation party, fish fry, jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum, tear, Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet; (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat.

Drunkenness

Verb: get drunk, be drunk; Adjective: see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you.

Drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber, wine-bibber, lush; hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker; soaker, sponge, tun; love pot, toss pot; thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian; Bacchal, Bacchante; devotee to Bacchus; bum, guzzler, tavern haunter.

Petitioner

Pauper, homeless person, hobo, bum, tramp, bindle stiff, bo, knight of the road (poverty); hippie, flower child; hard core unemployed; welfare client, welfare case.

Ship

Boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht.

Unskillfulness

Not know what one is about, not know one's own interest, not know on which side one's bread is buttered; stand in one's own light, quarrel with one's bread and butter, throw a stone in one's own garden, kill the goose which lays the golden eggs, pay dear for one's whistle, cut one's own throat, bum one's fingers; knock one's head against a stone wall, beat one's head against a stone wall; fall into a trap, catch a Tartar, bring the house about one's ears; have too many eggs in one basket (imprudent), have too many irons in the fire.

Crosswords: Bum

Albanian (boom), Czech (bang), German (bang, boom), Romanian (bang, boom, slap bang).

Start talking and talk fast you lousy bum. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

Third, the second y'all get back from Cambodia, move your bum ass outta your mom's house (Men in Black II; writing credit: Lowell Cunningham; Robert Gordon)

I coulda been someone Charley, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. I'm a bum (On the Waterfront; writing credit: Malcolm Johnson; Budd Schulberg)

You, my friend, have crossed the line between man and bum. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

When a bum throws up on you, you can chip it off. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

Got a bum education, double-digit inflation ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash)

You slump, bum, son of a gun, (Son Of A Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You); performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Yo bum rush the show ("Fight the Power"; performing artist: Public Enemy)

But I wouldn't give a sucker or a bum form the Rucker ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang)

There's a smelly old bum standing next to me (Another One Rides The Bus; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

The Ski Bum (1971)

Blonde on a Bum Trip (1968)

A Bum Steer (1957)

Bum Voyage (1934)

I'm a Bum Hallelujah (1933)

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Books

• Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (reference)

• Bum Town (reference)

• Does My Bum Look Big in This?: The Diary of an Insecure Woman (reference)

• He ain't no bum (reference)

• Hellroaring: The Life and Times of a Fire Bum (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Bum (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hallelujah I'm a Bum (reference)

• Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Bim Bam Bum (1935-1940) (reference)

• You Can't Stop the Bum Rush (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Anchored at Naples, Italy, 5 July 1948. She is using a fire hose, aft, to keep over-enthusiastic "bum boat" peddlers away from the ship. This was done in keeping with current directives from both Navy and Italian authorities prohibiting "bum boat" transactions. Photographed from USS Kearsarge (CV-33). Credit: NAVY.

Civilization builders. I am the undesirable immigrant -- I'm a dirty, lousy bum, full of ... Credit: Library of Congress.

"Bum blockade." All heading north. South of King City, California. Difficult to get a record of this movement because these men wouldn't be photographed as a result of Los Angeles police activity. Credit: Library of Congress.

Boy, fourteen, in eighth grade. Now unable to attend because of insufficient food and clothing. Subsisted two days on frozen tomatoes from field nearby. Father said "They call me a road hog and a bum; but if I am, how did that boy get into the eighth grad. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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So down with your breeches And out with your bum.

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Expressions using "bum": a bum radio set ♦ beach bum ♦ bum about ♦ bum around ♦ bum steer ♦ give smb. the bum steer ♦ to bum around. Additional references.

Beginning with "bum": bum-bag, bum-bags, bum-boy, bum-boys, bum-cheeks, bum-fluff, bum-fluffed, bum-freezer, bum-freezers, bum-of-the-month, bum-splintering, bum-wiggling.

Ending with "bum": all-bust-and-bum, beach-bum, g-bum, rum-stick-a-bum, ski-bum, slash-and-bum, stick-a-bum.

Containing "bum": whose-tum-bum-or-thighs-would-you-rather-have.

Albanian

vagabond (fugitive, landloper, loafer, prowler, rascal, rover, scamp, vagabond, wanderer), të ndenjura (breech, rear), lypës (beggar, Cadger, lack-all, mendicant, moocher, mumper, Randy), endem pa punë, endacak (errant, gadabout, gadder, gipsy, goer, gypsy, hobo, landloper, nomad, prowler, Ranger, rangy, rover, runabout, runagate, sansculotte, staggerer, stroller, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wandering). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متشرد (rogue, tramp, vagabond, vagrant), ‏مستجد, ‏مؤخرة (ass, backside, behind, butt, buttock, in the end, prat, rearward, stern), ‏نال بالأستجداء, ‏غير صالح (it's no use, out of date, out of order), ‏تافهة (nonentity, picayune, small beer, tawdry), ‏تشرد (fall through, vagabond, vagrancy), ‏عجيزة (behind, bottom, breech, butt, posterior, rear, slat, tail end), ‏طنين (buzz, humming, ring, ringing, rumble, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz), ‏المتسكع (lingerer, loafer, loiterer, looker on, prowler, rubberneck), ‏المتبطل السكير, ‏ردئ (bad, base, bastard, coarse, common, doggie, evil, fearful, fiendish, foul, ill, inferior, nice, paltry, poor, poorness, putrid, second rate, slim, sour, tacky, tinpot, unhealthy, vicious, villainous, watery). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скитник (casual, derelict, drifter, erratic, floater, hobo, itinerant, knockabout, land-loper, land-louper, nomad, on the wallaby, roadster, roamer, rover, runabout, straggler, swagman, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer), скитам (drift, hike, hobo, ramble, roam about, roll, rove, tramp, vagabond), гуляй (bat, bend, bender, binge, blowout, bout, carouse, drinking bout, feed, jamboree, junket, racket, randan, rant, rattle, razzle, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, rouse, soak, spree, tear, wassail), задник (arse, backside, breech, buttocks, can, cheeks, posterior, rear, seat, stern, tail), безделнича (drone, fribble, idle, lallygag, lounge, muck about), безделник (black sheep, cornerman, dangler, dead beat, deadbeat, do nothing, fiddler, fribble, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, lay about, loafer, loiterer, loon, lounger, spalpeen, spiv, tramp, twiddler, vagabond, wastrel). (various references)

Chinese 

二赖子. (various references)

Czech

zadnice (backside, Fanny, rump), zadek (back, behind, bottom, buttock, buttocks, Fanny, hindquarters, posterior, rear, stern, tail), vyžebrat si (beg), vandrák (hobo, tramp, vagabond), prdýlka, povaleè (bummer, good for nothing, layabout, loafer, lounger, slob, vagabond), pobuda (dosser, rogue, straggler, vagabond, vagrant), mizerný (abysmal, bad, bleeding, cheap, crappy, crummy, dismal, foul, lousy, miserable, painful, paltry, rotten, stingy, tinpot, vile, wretched). (various references)

Farsi 

ولگردی یامفت خوری کردن , ادم مفت خوریاولگرد, بحدافراطمشروب نوشیدن . (various references)

Finnish

pummi, maankiertäjä (tramp, vagabond, vagrant). (various references)

French

bon � rien, vivre en clochard, taper qn de qch, moche, minable, clodo, clochard, arrière-train (butt). (various references)

German

hintern (anus, arse, ass, backside, behind, behinds, bottom, bums, butt, buttocks, rear). (various references)

Greek 

κώλοσ (arse, ass, rectum), μόρτης (rascal, street urchin, tramp), αλήτησ (hobo, hoodlum, lout, rapscallion, rascallion, scamp, tramp, vagabond, vagrant). (various references)

Hebrew 

שקץ (abomination, detestation, unclean). (various references)

Hungarian

bóvli (brummagem ware, catchpenny, chintzy, piece of junk, rubbishy, shoddy, trumpery), bírósági végrehajtó (broker, bumbailiff, catchpole, sheriff's officer), bedöglött (to be bust, to be busted), csavarog (bump around, gallivant, loiter, mooch, muck about, to be on the loose, to be on the tramp, to gad, to hobo, to maunder, to muck about, to prowl, to stroll, to trapes, to trollop about, vagabondize), értéktelen (barren, chaffy, cheap, drossy, feckless, misbegotten, null, off-cast, paltry, pelting, punk, screwy, trashy, twopenny-halfpenny, unhelpful, unworthy, valueless, vile, worthless), hobó, henye ember, fenék (arse, ass, backside, bottom, botty, breech, buttocks, fanny, hams, hunker, kazoo, posterior, posteriors, prat, rear, tail), far (arse, buttocks, croup, derričre, hunker, pelvic limb, rump, tail), lógós (hanger-on, malingerer, moss-back, quitter, shirker, skiver, skulk, slacker, work-shy), dőzsölés (bat, bender, blow-out, bummer, debauchery, feasting, roistering), lakmározás (bean-feast, bummer, feasting, gorge), csavargó (beat, corner-man, gadabout, hobo, hoodlum, jockey, knockabout, landloper, landlouper, layabout, loiterer, lowlife, outcast, prowler, ranger, roamer, rogue, rover, runabout, runagate, to go for a tramp, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer), csöves (canaliculate, lowlife, tubular), ülep (arse, ass, behind, bottom, buttocks, fanny, nates, rear), erkölcstelen nő (bang, bimbo, pickup), pocsék (crummy, damnable, execrable, groaty, grotty, it's an atrocity, lousy, punk), tróger (packman), tivornya (bat, batter, bender, binge, bummer, carousal, flare-up, hellbender, high jinks, orgy, revelry), törvényszolga (bailiff, bumbailiff, outrider), törvényszéki kézbesítő (bumbailiff), semmittevő ember, ingyenélõ (parasite), popó (botty), tropa, nyomorult (abject, bally, blankety-blank, damned, godforsaken, jay, miserable, pimping, slave, wretch, wretched), nyavalyás (bally, bang, blankety-blank, bloody, crock, damn, damned, flaming, potty, ratty), munkakerülő (rotter, shirker, skiver, slothful), lusta ember (laggard, lagger, lazy-bones, sloth), letartóztató közeg (bumbailiff), lejmol (to freeload), popsi (botty, fanny, heinie). (various references)

Indonesian

membonceng (get a ride, hitch hike), gelandangan (vagabond, vagrant), coro (cockroach, creep), ceroboh (careless, heady, reckless, wanton). (various references)

Italian

vivere alle spalle altrui, scroccare (cadge, scrounge), fare il vagabondo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

碌でなし (good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ろくでなし (good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well). (various references)

Korean 

부당한 (invalid, undue). (various references)

Manx

thoyn (anus, arse, backside, behind, bottom, buttock, rectum, seat, vent), curp (aitch bone, bottom, buttock, haunch, rump). (various references)

Pig Latin

umbay.(various references)

Portuguese

beberrão (bacchant, carouser, drunkard, rummy, soaker, sot, winebag), beber muito, zumbir (buzz, drone, fizz, ha, hum, sing, whirr, whistle), vagabundo (cornerman, down-and-out, gadabout, gadder, hobo, landloper, landlouper, lazybones, maverick, planetary, prowler, rambling, ranger, rover, rowdy, runabout, stroller, strolling, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, waif, wanderer, wandering, wastrel, woodward), traseiro (arse, ass, back, backside, behind, bottom, breech, buttock, fundament, hind, hinder, posterior, rear, seat, stern), sem valor (chaffy, hollow, inconsiderable, naught, nugatory, paltry, peddling, picayune, trashy, trifling, useless, vain, valueless, waste, worthless), rabo (posterior, stern, tail), ordinário (base, base-minded, common, everyday, garden, ordinary, penny-a-line, run-of-the-mill, stinker, twopenny, usual, vulgar), não fazer nada, mau (bad, dark, evil, graceless, ill, ill-conditioned, ill-favored, ill-favoured, malignant, mischievous, miserable, nasty, perverse, poor, punk, sinful, two-bit, unjust, unrighteous, venomous, vicious, vile, villainous, wrong), farra (binge, bust, carousal, carouse, dissipation), assento (banquette, bench, bottom, buttock, chair, cockpit, entry, seat, stool, toilet seat). (various references)

Romanian

vagabonda (be on the tramp, hang around, mooch about, rove, run about, straggle, stray), vagabond (gadabout, gypsy, hobo, landloper, mudlark, range, rogue, rover, runabout, scalawag, stray, tramp, vagabond, vagrant), rãu (Amiss, atrocious, awkward, awry, bad, bad for, bad-hearted, badly, baleful, black, corrupt, depraved, evil, flagitious, foul, haggish, harm, ill, immoral, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, mischief, mischievous, miserable, naughty, perverse, rough, scoundrel, sickness, thin, unspeakable, useless, venomous, vicious, vile, wicked, wretched, wrong), lenevi (dawdle, idle, lounge, slack, slug, yawn one's life away), leneş (dull, easeful, easy going, idle, Idler, idly, lazily, lazy, lazybones, loafer, loiterer, otiose, shiftless, slothful, sluggard, sluggish, torpid, truant, vacant), de calitate proastã (rotten). (various references)

Russian 

задница (ass), зад (arse, ass, back, backside, breech, croupe, duff, end, fanny 2, fundament, hams, posterior, prat), лодырь (bummer, dawdler, duffer, lazybones, moocher, poke, slacker), бродяга (derelict, dosser, drifter, drummer, gadabout, gadder, hobo, landloper, landlouper, maverick, nomad, prowler, rambler, rogue, runabout, runagate, stroller, sundowner, tramp, tramper, vagabond, vagrant), бездельничать (dawdle, drone, fiddle about, fribble, idle, lallygag, laze, loaf, molder, moulder, sit back, twiddle, while the time away), бездельник (chair warmer, dangler, do nothing, do-naught, do-nothing, doodle, footer, fribble, good for nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, loon, lounger, ne'er do well, ne'erdoweel, rapscallion, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, scapegrace, skulker, sluggard, trifler, twiddler, vagabond). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tumaralo (gadabout, prowler, runabout), skitnica (drifter, hobo, landloper, landlouper, larrikin, loafer, runagate, sundowner, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer), izmoliti, isprositi (cadge, mump), gulanfer (tramp). (various references)

Spanish

sablear (cadge), pobre tipo, malo (Amiss, bad, black-hearted, difficult, disagreeable, disgusting, erroneous, evil, evil-wishing, hard, ill, inconvenient, lower, mischievous, miserable, mistaken, nasty, naughty, ornery, poor, punk, sick, tacky, tough, troubled, unsound, villain, wicked, wretched, wrong), holgazán (dawdler, idle, Idler, laggard, lagger, lazy), gorronear (cadge, scrounge), culo (arse, ass, behind, bottom, Duff, Fanny, stern), canturrear (croon, hum, sing softly). (various references)

Swedish

luffare (hobo, swagger, swagman, tramp, vagabond, vagrant). (various references)

Thai

ไม่มีคุ�"ค่า, ก้น (arris, arse, ass, bazoo, boodie, boody, bottom, buns, butt, caboose, duff, gazoo, keester, keyster, khyber pass, kiester, kyber pass, labonza, rusty-dusty), คนเกียจคร้าน (idler). (various references)

Turkish

bozuk (addle, bad, broken, broken down, damaged, dead, deranged, dirty, disappointed, dished, disordered, distorted, doric, embroiled, faulty, flyblown, foul, gone, hard set, haywire, heavy, hipshot, imperfect, in bad order, irregular, kaput, knackered, off, on the fritz, out of action, out of commission, out of gear, out of order, perverse, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rancid, rotten, stale, touched, unsound, upset, vicious, wrong), beş para etmez (a dime a dozen, good for nothing, not worth a button, not worth a cent, not worth a damn, not worth a doit, not worth a farthing, not worth a fig, not worth a penny, not worth a rap, not worth a rush, tinpot, trashy, worthless), berbat (abominable, abysmal, accursed, accurst, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, badly, beastly, chronic, crappy, dashed, destroyed, deuced, devilish, disgusting, dread, dreadfull, egregious, execrable, fierce, flagitious, frightful, ghastly, grotty, hell, hell of, helluva, horrible, horrid, indifferent, infamous, infernal, ropy, rotten, screwed, shocking, sickening, spoilt, sticky, stinking, terrible, ungodly, unsavory, unsavoury, vicious, vile, villainous, violent, wretched), aylak (bummer, dawdler, idle, Idler, layabout, loafer, loiterer, otiose, runabout, unemployed, vagabond, vagrant), aylak aylak dolaşmak (bum around, fool about, fool around, hang about, hang around, idle about, roam about, saunter, slop around, slope around), aylaklık etmek (arse around, bum around, dawdle, fiddle, fiddle about, fiddle around, footle, frig, loaf, loaf about, loaf around, not to work), anaforcu (cadger, parasite, sponger), dilenmek (ask for alms, beg, cant, mump, panhandle), serseri (adrift, beat, bummer, 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), fahişe (bitch, call girl, courtesan, courtezan, drab, fancy woman, floozy, harlot, hooker, hustler, Moll, night walker, painted woman, pro, prostitute, scarlet woman, slag, streetwalker, strumpet, trollop, trull, whore), kıç (arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, breech, butt, buttocks, can, Fanny, fundament, ham, haunches, hindquarters, hip, nates, poop, posterior, rear, rear end, rump, slats, stern, tail, tail end, vent), kaba et (buttock, can, posterior), otlakçı (bummer, cadger, free rider, freeloader, scrounger, shark, sponge, sponger), otlakçılık etmek (scrounge, sponge, sponge on), popo (backside, behind, breech, butt, buttocks, can, posterior, rear, rear end), dilenci (beggar, cadger, mendicant, panhandler). (various references)

Turkmen 

sergezdan (vagabond). (various references)

Ukrainian

судовий пристав (bailiff, catchpoll), гульня (bat, binge, carousal, debauch, fuddle, hellbender, punch, razzle, razzle-dazzle, spree, toot, whiz, whizz), нікчема (blighter, cipher, duffer, ne'er do well, nihil, nit, nobody, nonentity, nought, nullity, pygmy, snake, snipe, snipper-snapper, wastrel, wet, whipper-snapper, whipster, zero), нечесний (bad, cammed, crooked, dishonest, sharking, shifty, sinister, snide, unfair, untrue), ледар (bummer, dawdle, dawdler, lazybones, lounger, poke, quitter, slow, sluggard, wag), байдикувати (dawdle, drone, hang about, idle, knock around, lallygag, loiter away, sit back, snooze, twiddle), поганий (bad, cheesy, deplorable, doggerel, ill, inferior, nasty, naught, naughty, objectionable, one horse, punk, rubbishy, shady, sour, third rate, unlovely, weak), пиячити (be on the booze, boose, bouse, carouse, fuddle, guzzle, knock back, make whoopee, tipple, tope). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vô giá trị (gewgaw, nude, nugatory, rotten, scrubby, stramineous, straw, trashy, two-bit, waste), rối loạn ăn bám, phía sau, kẻ lười biếng, kẻ ăn bám đi lang thang vô công r�"i nghề, hạng bét (cheesiness), ăn bám lộn xộn. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bum": bumbershoot, bumbershoots, bumble, bumblebee, bumblebees, bumbled, bumbler, bumblers, bumbles, bumbling, bumblingly, bumblings, bumboat, bumboats, bumf, bumfs, bumkin, bumkins, bummed, bummer, bummers, bummest, bumming, bump, bumped, bumper, bumpered, bumpering, bumpers, bumph, bumphs, bumpier, bumpiest, bumpily, bumpiness, bumpinesses, bumping, bumpkin, bumpkinish, bumpkinly, bumpkins, bumps, bumptious, bumptiously, bumptiousness, bumptiousnesses, bumpy, bums. (additional references)

Words ending with "bum": album, crumbum, plumbum, sebum, stewbum, stumblebum. (additional references)

Words containing "bum": albumen, albumens, albumin, albuminous, albumins, albuminuria, albuminurias, albuminuric, albumose, albumoses, albums, crumbums, lactalbumin, lactalbumins, ovalbumin, ovalbumins, plumbums, sebums, stewbums, stumblebums, subumbrella, subumbrellas. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bamg, bamh, bamm, bamo, baum, baume, bbem, bbm, bcm, Behm, bem, bemo, bgm, bhume, bimm, bimo, bipm, Bluhm, blumt, bmr, bmt, bmw, bmx, boem, bom, Bomi, Bomm, bomr, Bouma, boym, Bpu, bu, buam, buc, buh, buim, buj, buk, bumah, bumb, bume, bumf, bumt, burm, buum, Buv, buw, Bvu, bym, ebom, eum, Fbim, Kum, oum, vum, wum. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: mu, um.

+1 letter: bumf, bump, bums, dumb, numb, umbo.

+2 letters: album, begum, blume, brume, bumfs, bumph, bumps, bumpy, buxom, crumb, dumbs, gumbo, imbue, jumbo, numbs, plumb, rhumb, rumba, sebum, thumb, umbel, umber, umbos, umbra.

+3 letters: albums, ambush, barium, bedumb, begums, bemuse, benumb, besmut, blumed, blumes, brumal, brumby, brumes, bumble, bumkin, bummed, bummer, bumped, bumper, bumphs, bunkum, busman, busmen, crumbs, crumby, cubism, cumber, dumbed, dumber, dumbly, embrue, erbium, fumble, gumbos, humble, humbly, humbug, iambus, imbrue, imbued, imbues, jumbal, jumble, jumbos, labium, labrum, limbus, lumbar, lumber, mumble, mumbly, nimbus, numbat, numbed, number, numbly, pablum, plumbs, rhumba, rhumbs, rumbas, rumble, rumbly, sambur, sebums, subgum, submit, tambur, thumbs, tumble, umbels, umbers, umbles, umbrae, umbral, umbras.