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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar

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bum

/bʌm/

US pronunciation

American sound/bʌm/

bum

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short u vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> bum

Myanmar meaning

(n) တင်ပါးဆုံ။

Full entry

bum¹ /bʌm/ n (infml esp Brit )

တင်ပါးဆုံ။
❏ bum-bag n (Brit infml )
ခါးပတ်ချိတ် ပိုက်ဆံအိတ်ငယ်။
❏ bums on seats [IDM ]
ထိုင်ခုံဝယ်ကြည့်သည့် ပရိသတ်။ The festival organizers were chiefly concerned with putting bums on seats.

bum² /bʌm/ n (infml esp US )

(က) ခြေသလုံးအိမ်တိုင်။ ကလေ ကချေ။ တောင်းရမ်းစားသူ။
bums sleeping in the streets.
(ခ) လူပျင်း။ လူဖျင်း။ You're just a no-good bum!
adj (infml ) ညံ့ဖျင်းသော။ အသုံးမကျသော။ a bum suggestion/idea ❍ a bum deal (ie a bad BARGAIN¹).
v (-mm- ) ~ sth (off sb) (infml ) တောင်းယူသည်။ အားပါးမနာ (မကြာခဏ) တောင်းသည်။ bum a lift ❍ Can I bum a cigarette off you?
❏ bum around/about [PHRV ] လျှောက်၍လေလွင့် နေသည်။ I bummed around (in) Europe for a year before starting my job.

More examples

A beach bum

Synonyms

T-off, accept loan of, aggravate, ask, ask alms, astucious, bat around, be at, be inactive, be indolent, be on the back of, be slothful, be unoccupied, beg, beggar, bindle, black sheep, bombilate, bombinate, borrow, bum around, bummed, bumming, bumoff, cadge, call on, call upon, calling upon, clamor for, come on to, come to, contend for, deceptive, derelict, dime up, drifter, drive up the wall, false, file for, floater, fly by night, freeload, get around, get on nerves, get on one's nerves, get one's goat, get to, getting to, give a hard time, give a note for, goldbrick, got to, gutterpup, guttersnipe, hacked, hacking, hang loose, hang out, hanging loose, hawking, hit on, hit up, hobo, hold out one's hand, huckstering, hum, imposturous, knock around, laze, leach off, leeching, lie down on job, live hand to mouth, live off of, live off others, loaf, loll, lounge, lounge around, mendicate, mooch, nasty, nickel up, no bargain, no good, not lift a finger, panhandle, pass the hat, pass time, peeve, piddle, punker, purring, put the bite on, put the touch on, quack, raise money, roam, rotten, run into debt, scrounge, see one's uncle, shuffle off, sing low, sit around, slough off, slow down, slowed down, slowing down, solicit, solicit charity, sponge, sponge on, spurious, stand around, steamed, stiff, struggle along, sue for, take it easy, take on loan, taking it easy, thrum, toff, tramp, transient, trustless, twiddle thumbs, unassured, unauthentic, undependable, ungenuine, use temporarily, vagabond, vagrant, while away hours, whistle for

Cross references

T-off accept loan of aggravate ask ask alms astucious bat around be at be inactive be indolent be on the back of be slothful be unoccupied beg beggar bindle black sheep bombilate bombinate borrow bum around bummed bumming bumoff cadge call on call upon calling upon

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