bummingn.¹

Brit.

/ˈbʌmɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈbəmɪŋ/, Scottish English

/ˈbʌmɪŋ/, Irish English

/ˈbʌmɪŋ/

Forms: see bum v.² and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bum v.², -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < bum v.² + -ing suffix¹.

Chiefly Scottish and Irish English (northern).

A humming, buzzing, or droning sound; the action of making a sound of this kind. Later also: boasting, bragging. Cf. bum v.²

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [noun] > monotonous sound

bummingc1487

drone1568

unison1609

droning1646

monotony1706

bum1790

monody1849

tum-tum1859

thrum1883

thrumming1941

c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 246 With mortall styngyng and hiddous bummyng and noise that they [sc. gnattes] make.

?1590–1 J. Burel Passage of Pilgremer i, in Poems sig. N3 With mumming, and bumming, The Bee now seiks his byke.

1670 W. Annand Pater Noster i. 266 There is such a bumming in the ears of man, that with the maniest the sound of the words, carrying the sense of the will of God, hath not admittance into that gate of the soul, the ear.

1721 A. Ramsay Poems I. 292 Syne his Bread-winner [sc. his fiddle] out he'd bang, And fa' to Bumming.

1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch vii. 43 Toot-tooting of clarionets, and bumming of bass-fiddles.

1900 ‘M. O'Neill’ Songs Glens of Antrim 4 This livin' air is moithered wi' the bummin' o' the bees.

1927 Punch 16 Nov. 549/3 The air is fairly moidhered wid the bummin' of the politicians.

1930 N. Shepherd Weatherhouse vi. 107 She went out to the long brown Weatherhill, where no one would resent her bumming.

1992 S. Bruce Red Hand v. 127 The hostility, a lot of it was just bumming and blowing—our team's better than your team.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

bummingn.²

Brit.

/ˈbʌmɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈbəmɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bum v.⁶, -ing suffix¹; bum n.⁶, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly (i) < bum v.⁶ + -ing suffix¹, and partly (ii) < bum n.⁶ + -ing suffix¹. Compare slightly earlier bummer n.³

colloquial (originally U.S. slang).

a. The action or habit of passing one's time in idleness; lazing around, loafing. Later also: the action of travelling around with no particular plan or purpose. Now usually with around. Cf. bum v.⁶ 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > behaviour

lomperingc1315

truandisea1400

sleuthingc1450

slugging1532

truanting1532

lusking1579

concessation1623

lazinga1626

lounging1793

loafing1838

bumming1857

mooch1859

loaf1860

sluggarding1864

flânerie1873

slobbery1912

spine-bashing1941

slobbing1960

lepak1993

lepaking1994

1857 San Francisco Call 9 Jan. 1/2 The ‘Bumming and Gassing Company’ were out in full strength, the novelty of labor being a new experience in their existence.

1887 ‘Bunny’ Two Years Cow Boy viii. 100 In winter so little has to be done that it goes by the designation of Bumming time!

1926 Family 7 7/2 His ‘bumming around’ and disobedience bring on a conflict usually ending in violence on the part of Mr. Marx.

1942 B. Carpenter Rise of Terry Schuman i. viii. 105 I'm sick to death of this bumming around, and I want to settle down.

1983 T. Mehmood Hand on Sun viii. 61 Man, all this bumming around gets me down. Café after café. Nothing ever happens around here!

2009 J. Matthews Baby Doctor's Bride iii. 59 ‘So you're bumming around the country for a while?’ He wasn't inclined to tell her that his ‘bumming around’ was a permanent, not a temporary condition.

b. The action or practice of living as a tramp or vagrant; being ‘on the bum’ (see bum n.⁶ Phrases 2a). Cf. bum n.⁶ 3a, bum v.⁶ 1.

ΚΠ

1872 C. L. Brace Dangerous Classes N.Y. 102 I say, Jim, this is rayther better an' bummin'—eh?

1874 H. Alger Julius x. 93 Now I want you, boys, to leave off bummin', and try to be 'spectable members of s'ciety.

1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 66 The idea of begging or ‘bumming’ as it is popularly called out there, went strongly against my stomach.

1925 S. Howard They knew what they Wanted 56 Maybe I was gettin' tired of bummin'.

2011 M. Oher I beat Odds (2012) i. 11 Begging and bumming was just a way of life, whether we were living in Hurt Village or had gotten bumped to another project.

†2. The action of going on a drinking spree or getting drunk. Cf. bum n.⁶ 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout

cups1406

drinking?1518

banquet1535

Bacchanal1536

pot-revel1577

compotation1593

rouse1604

Bacchanalia1633

potmealc1639

bout1670

drinking-bout1673

carouse1690

carousal1765

drunk1779

bouse1786

toot1790

set-to1808

spree1811

fuddlea1813

screed1815

bust1834

lush1841

bender1846

bat1848

buster1848

burst1849

soak1851

binge1854

bumming1860

bust-out1861

bum1863

booze1864

drink1865

ran-tan1866

cupping1868

crawl1877

hellbender1877

break-away1885

periodical1886

jag1894

booze-up1897

slopping-up1899

souse1903

pub crawl1915

blind1917

beer-up1919

periodic1920

scoot1924

brannigan1927

rumba1934

boozeroo1943

sesh1943

session1943

piss-up1950

pink-eye1958

binge drinking1964

1860 Yale Lit. Mag. Aug. 398 Another great sham connected with our social life is that of spreeing, or ‘bumming’.

1867 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 12 Jan. 2/7 She had been arrested on this occasion for ‘bumming’, having been picked up on the streets in a fearful state of intoxication.

1897 Amer. Lawyer May 205/1 Good citizens are not made out of a family whose head is spending his days in idleness and his nights in bumming or gambling.

3. The action of begging or scrounging for a specified thing. Usually with of. Cf. bum v.⁶ 2a.Compare some earlier examples of sense 1b, which make specific reference to begging (e.g. quot. 1891).

ΚΠ

1909 Sat. Spectator (Terre Haute, Indiana) 7 Aug. 6/2 (heading) Police Bumming of Drinks to be Stopped.

1929 Miami (Okla.) Daily News-Record 2 June 9/3 A character around the hectic Virginia City was known as Bummer Dan, because of his persistent bumming of money, drinks and meals.

1938 Michiganensian 42 468 The bumming of cigarettes and borrowing of money for indefinite periods.

1972 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 11 Oct. 8/3 What he considers real issues: jobs, living costs and food prices, economic injustice, corporate welfare bumming.

2003 D. Roberts Four against Arctic (2005) 277 For all the man's disorganized planning, for all his autodidact's contempt for authority—even for all his bumming of cigarettes—our guide had taken care of us.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

bummingn.³

Brit.

/ˈbʌmɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈbəmɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bum v.⁴, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < bum v.⁴ + -ing suffix¹.

coarse slang.

Anal sex. Cf. bum v.⁴ 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > anal sex > [noun]

sodomyc1325

sin of Sodom1340

sodomitec1350

sodomitry1531

buggery1533

sodding1868

anal intercourse1886

anal1943

cornholing1955

brown eye1967

anal sex1970

cornhole1970

butt-fucking1974

bumming2001

2001 Independent 20 Mar. ii. 4/1 ‘Literature did go on about sodomy, and increasingly,’ Amis wrote... There follows a thoughtful mini-essay on the role of bumming in the work of Joyce, Lawrence, Beckett, Mailer, Updike and Naipaul.

2011 Daily Tel. 28 Jan. 40/3 When someone hacks your facebook account and changes your ‘Interests’ to things like ‘bumming’).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

bummingadj.

Brit.

/ˈbʌmɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈbəmɪŋ/, Scottish English

/ˈbʌmɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bum v.², -ing suffix².

Etymology: < bum v.² + -ing suffix².

Chiefly Scottish in later use.

Buzzing, humming.Earliest in extended use, in bumming sound n. at Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [adjective] > buzzing

bumming1598

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. iv. sig. D4^v Fox-furd Mecho..Hath rak'd together some foure thousand pound, To make his smug gurle, beare a bumming sound In a young merchants eare.

1599 ‘T. Cutwode’ Caltha Poetarum sig. B7 A Bee came flying to this flower, with hummng [sic] melodie, & bumming noyce.

1688 W. Scot True Hist. Families 30 The bussie bussing bumming Bee.

1793 J. Thomson Major Piper I. vii. 134 If I had heard the bumming, unexpected salute, I certainly should have been as expeditious as Mary in quitting the fire-side.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 131 Bumming gad-flies ceased to tease.

a1870 D. Thomson Musings among Heather (1881) 127 The hame-gaun wearied busy bees Flee hye on bummin' wings.

1976 Akros Aug. 73 Aa simmer the bummin bees ryped their ashets and aye gaed back for mair.

2016 S. Gilliland in Lallans 89 67 The oangaun hum oan the bummin wires owerheid.

Compounds

† bumming sound n. Obsolete something noteworthy; something worth listening to.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > worthy of notice

notabilityc1390

notables1484

bumming sound1598

grandee1622

observable1639

remarkable1639

observanda1663

remark1675

observation1736

crowning glory1780

attentiona1806

notabilia1849

day1918

one for the (end) books (also book)1922

1598Bumming sound [see main sense].

1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. iii. sig. E4 A thousand pound a yeare! Bar Ladie thats a bumming sound.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

n.¹c1487

n.²1857

n.³2001

adj.1598

单词	bumming
释义	bummingn.¹ Brit. /ˈbʌmɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbəmɪŋ/, Scottish English /ˈbʌmɪŋ/, Irish English /ˈbʌmɪŋ/ Forms: see bum v.² and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bum v.², -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < bum v.² + -ing suffix¹. Chiefly Scottish and Irish English (northern). A humming, buzzing, or droning sound; the action of making a sound of this kind. Later also: boasting, bragging. Cf. bum v.² ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [noun] > monotonous sound bummingc1487 drone1568 unison1609 droning1646 monotony1706 bum1790 monody1849 tum-tum1859 thrum1883 thrumming1941 c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 246 With mortall styngyng and hiddous bummyng and noise that they [sc. gnattes] make. ?1590–1 J. Burel Passage of Pilgremer i, in Poems sig. N3 With mumming, and bumming, The Bee now seiks his byke. 1670 W. Annand Pater Noster i. 266 There is such a bumming in the ears of man, that with the maniest the sound of the words, carrying the sense of the will of God, hath not admittance into that gate of the soul, the ear. 1721 A. Ramsay Poems I. 292 Syne his Bread-winner [sc. his fiddle] out he'd bang, And fa' to Bumming. 1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch vii. 43 Toot-tooting of clarionets, and bumming of bass-fiddles. 1900 ‘M. O'Neill’ Songs Glens of Antrim 4 This livin' air is moithered wi' the bummin' o' the bees. 1927 Punch 16 Nov. 549/3 The air is fairly moidhered wid the bummin' of the politicians. 1930 N. Shepherd Weatherhouse vi. 107 She went out to the long brown Weatherhill, where no one would resent her bumming. 1992 S. Bruce Red Hand v. 127 The hostility, a lot of it was just bumming and blowing—our team's better than your team. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bummingn.² Brit. /ˈbʌmɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbəmɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bum v.⁶, -ing suffix¹; bum n.⁶, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: Partly (i) < bum v.⁶ + -ing suffix¹, and partly (ii) < bum n.⁶ + -ing suffix¹. Compare slightly earlier bummer n.³ colloquial (originally U.S. slang). 1. a. The action or habit of passing one's time in idleness; lazing around, loafing. Later also: the action of travelling around with no particular plan or purpose. Now usually with around. Cf. bum v.⁶ 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > behaviour lomperingc1315 truandisea1400 sleuthingc1450 slugging1532 truanting1532 lusking1579 concessation1623 lazinga1626 lounging1793 loafing1838 bumming1857 mooch1859 loaf1860 sluggarding1864 flânerie1873 slobbery1912 spine-bashing1941 slobbing1960 lepak1993 lepaking1994 1857 San Francisco Call 9 Jan. 1/2 The ‘Bumming and Gassing Company’ were out in full strength, the novelty of labor being a new experience in their existence. 1887 ‘Bunny’ Two Years Cow Boy viii. 100 In winter so little has to be done that it goes by the designation of Bumming time! 1926 Family 7 7/2 His ‘bumming around’ and disobedience bring on a conflict usually ending in violence on the part of Mr. Marx. 1942 B. Carpenter Rise of Terry Schuman i. viii. 105 I'm sick to death of this bumming around, and I want to settle down. 1983 T. Mehmood Hand on Sun viii. 61 Man, all this bumming around gets me down. Café after café. Nothing ever happens around here! 2009 J. Matthews Baby Doctor's Bride iii. 59 ‘So you're bumming around the country for a while?’ He wasn't inclined to tell her that his ‘bumming around’ was a permanent, not a temporary condition. b. The action or practice of living as a tramp or vagrant; being ‘on the bum’ (see bum n.⁶ Phrases 2a). Cf. bum n.⁶ 3a, bum v.⁶ 1. ΚΠ 1872 C. L. Brace Dangerous Classes N.Y. 102 I say, Jim, this is rayther better an' bummin'—eh? 1874 H. Alger Julius x. 93 Now I want you, boys, to leave off bummin', and try to be 'spectable members of s'ciety. 1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 66 The idea of begging or ‘bumming’ as it is popularly called out there, went strongly against my stomach. 1925 S. Howard They knew what they Wanted 56 Maybe I was gettin' tired of bummin'. 2011 M. Oher I beat Odds (2012) i. 11 Begging and bumming was just a way of life, whether we were living in Hurt Village or had gotten bumped to another project. †2. The action of going on a drinking spree or getting drunk. Cf. bum n.⁶ 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout cups1406 drinking?1518 banquet1535 Bacchanal1536 pot-revel1577 compotation1593 rouse1604 Bacchanalia1633 potmealc1639 bout1670 drinking-bout1673 carouse1690 carousal1765 drunk1779 bouse1786 toot1790 set-to1808 spree1811 fuddlea1813 screed1815 bust1834 lush1841 bender1846 bat1848 buster1848 burst1849 soak1851 binge1854 bumming1860 bust-out1861 bum1863 booze1864 drink1865 ran-tan1866 cupping1868 crawl1877 hellbender1877 break-away1885 periodical1886 jag1894 booze-up1897 slopping-up1899 souse1903 pub crawl1915 blind1917 beer-up1919 periodic1920 scoot1924 brannigan1927 rumba1934 boozeroo1943 sesh1943 session1943 piss-up1950 pink-eye1958 binge drinking1964 1860 Yale Lit. Mag. Aug. 398 Another great sham connected with our social life is that of spreeing, or ‘bumming’. 1867 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 12 Jan. 2/7 She had been arrested on this occasion for ‘bumming’, having been picked up on the streets in a fearful state of intoxication. 1897 Amer. Lawyer May 205/1 Good citizens are not made out of a family whose head is spending his days in idleness and his nights in bumming or gambling. 3. The action of begging or scrounging for a specified thing. Usually with of. Cf. bum v.⁶ 2a.Compare some earlier examples of sense 1b, which make specific reference to begging (e.g. quot. 1891). ΚΠ 1909 Sat. Spectator (Terre Haute, Indiana) 7 Aug. 6/2 (heading) Police Bumming of Drinks to be Stopped. 1929 Miami (Okla.) Daily News-Record 2 June 9/3 A character around the hectic Virginia City was known as Bummer Dan, because of his persistent bumming of money, drinks and meals. 1938 Michiganensian 42 468 The bumming of cigarettes and borrowing of money for indefinite periods. 1972 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 11 Oct. 8/3 What he considers real issues: jobs, living costs and food prices, economic injustice, corporate welfare bumming. 2003 D. Roberts Four against Arctic (2005) 277 For all the man's disorganized planning, for all his autodidact's contempt for authority—even for all his bumming of cigarettes—our guide had taken care of us. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bummingn.³ Brit. /ˈbʌmɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbəmɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bum v.⁴, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < bum v.⁴ + -ing suffix¹. coarse slang. Anal sex. Cf. bum v.⁴ 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > anal sex > [noun] sodomyc1325 sin of Sodom1340 sodomitec1350 sodomitry1531 buggery1533 sodding1868 anal intercourse1886 anal1943 cornholing1955 brown eye1967 anal sex1970 cornhole1970 butt-fucking1974 bumming2001 2001 Independent 20 Mar. ii. 4/1 ‘Literature did go on about sodomy, and increasingly,’ Amis wrote... There follows a thoughtful mini-essay on the role of bumming in the work of Joyce, Lawrence, Beckett, Mailer, Updike and Naipaul. 2011 Daily Tel. 28 Jan. 40/3 When someone hacks your facebook account and changes your ‘Interests’ to things like ‘bumming’). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bummingadj. Brit. /ˈbʌmɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbəmɪŋ/, Scottish English /ˈbʌmɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bum v.², -ing suffix². Etymology: < bum v.² + -ing suffix². Chiefly Scottish in later use. Buzzing, humming.Earliest in extended use, in bumming sound n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [adjective] > buzzing bumming1598 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. iv. sig. D4^v Fox-furd Mecho..Hath rak'd together some foure thousand pound, To make his smug gurle, beare a bumming sound In a young merchants eare. 1599 ‘T. Cutwode’ Caltha Poetarum sig. B7 A Bee came flying to this flower, with hummng [sic] melodie, & bumming noyce. 1688 W. Scot True Hist. Families 30 The bussie bussing bumming Bee. 1793 J. Thomson Major Piper I. vii. 134 If I had heard the bumming, unexpected salute, I certainly should have been as expeditious as Mary in quitting the fire-side. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 131 Bumming gad-flies ceased to tease. a1870 D. Thomson Musings among Heather (1881) 127 The hame-gaun wearied busy bees Flee hye on bummin' wings. 1976 Akros Aug. 73 Aa simmer the bummin bees ryped their ashets and aye gaed back for mair. 2016 S. Gilliland in Lallans 89 67 The oangaun hum oan the bummin wires owerheid. Compounds † bumming sound n. Obsolete something noteworthy; something worth listening to. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > worthy of notice notabilityc1390 notables1484 bumming sound1598 grandee1622 observable1639 remarkable1639 observanda1663 remark1675 observation1736 crowning glory1780 attentiona1806 notabilia1849 day1918 one for the (end) books (also book)1922 1598Bumming sound [see main sense]. 1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. iii. sig. E4 A thousand pound a yeare! Bar Ladie thats a bumming sound. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹c1487n.²1857n.³2001adj.1598
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bummingadj.

Compounds

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