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{{11}}bum (1) "buttocks," late 14c., "probably onomatopЕ“ic, to be compared with other words of similar sound and with the general sense of 'protuberance, swelling.' " [OED]
{{12}}bum (2) "dissolute loafer, tramp," 1864, Amer.Eng., from bummer "loafer, idle person" (1855), possibly an extension of the British word for "backside" (similar development took place in Scotland, 1540), but more prob. from Ger. slang bummler "loafer," from bummeln "go slowly, waste time." Bum first appears in a German-American context, and bummer was popular in the slang of the North's army in Amer. Civil War (as many as 216,000 German immigrants in the ranks). Bum's rush "forcible ejection" first recorded 1910. Bummer "bad experience" is 1960s slang.

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