bum
意味
- なまけ者;浮浪者
- ぶらつく,のらくらする《+around+名》
- …をねだる,たかる
- 非常に悪い,価値のない
- おしり
例文
There are a lot of beach bums in Hawaii.
ハワイにはサーフ狂がいっぱいいる。
Get back to work, you lazy bum!
仕事に戻りなさい。この怠け者！
Of course you can trust me. Have I ever given you a bum steer before?
むろん信用していいとも。君にヨタ情報を教えたことが一度でもあったかい。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Attested since the 1300s, as Middle English bom (found in John Trevisa's 1387 Translation of the 'Polychronicon' of Ranulph Higden, "his bom is oute"), of uncertain origin. Sometimes suggested to be a shortening of botme, botom, bottum (“bottom”), but this is contradicted by the fact that bottom is not attested in reference to the buttocks until the late 1700s. Suggested by some old and modern references to be onomatopoeic. Compare also Old Irish, Scottish Gaelic bun (“base, bottom”). The anal sex senses (noun and verb), as well as the adjective (esp. the first) sense, are expletive-avoiding (i.e. Bowdlerized) shortenings of bumfuck.
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