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bumhood en · NOUN

Etymology

From bum + -hood.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state of being a bum.
    • It had been depressingly easy to transform him to bumhood. 2002, Douglas Preston, The Cabinet of Curiosities: A Novel, →ISBN:
    • You had Commies, capitalists (ruined, but adhering), even monarchists, in bumhood. 1993, Barry Hannah, Bats Out of Hell, →ISBN, page 186:
    • In La Chienne, Simon performs as Legrand, a well-starched civil servant and uppity colleague destined for a fall into the arms of the ruinous Lulu, and thence into bumhood, to the status of one scorned and reviled. 1996, Identity Papers, →ISBN: