British Slang: Bum | Bum Fodder | Bumf | Bumsucker | Bumfreezer

Bum

Buttocks, rear end, backside

Bum fodder

Toilet paper roll

Bumf

Derogatory reference to official documents or paperwork. Abbreviation of bum fodder.

Bumsucker

Flatterer. Sycophant. A contemptible person, scoundrel, informant, thief. A person with servile, obsequious behavior.

Bumfreezer

Any short jacket, blazer, coat or cardigan and especially an Eton jacket – a short black jacket.

Meaning of Bum from the English-Bulgarian Dictionary:

Bum [bum]:

I.

1. Vagrant, lazy person, tramp, good-for-nothing
2. Incompetent person
3. Wanderer

On the BUM – idle, loafing, begging

II.

1. To loaf, to wander, to roam
2. To live off others
3. To beg, to obtain by begging

III.

1. Useless, unsuitable
2. Damaged, out of order
3. Extremely unpleasant

IV. Informal bumbailiff

V. n sl. vulgar buttocks, rear end

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