Bum vs Hole - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between bum and hole

is that bum is the buttocks while hole is a hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.

As verbs the difference between bum and hole

is that bum is to sodomize; to engage in anal sex while hole is to make holes in (an object or surface).

As an interjection bum

is an expression of annoyance.

As an adjective bum

is of poor quality or highly undesirable.

bum

English

Etymology 1

1387,

Noun

(en noun)

The buttocks.

Okay, everyone sit on your bum and try and touch your toes.

(UK, Irish, AU, New Zealand, informal, rare, Canada, US) The anus.

(by metonymy, informal) A person.

Quotations

* (English Citations of "bum")

Usage notes

* In the United States and Canada, bum'' is considered the most appropriate term when speaking to young children, as in ''Everyone please sit on your bum and we'll read a story.'' For older children and teenagers, especially males, as well as adults, the term (butt) is the most common term except in professional contexts such as medical, legal, and scientific where (buttocks) is generally used or (gluteus maximus), (gluteus medius), etc. for the muscles specifically. ''Glutes]]'' is often used in sports medicine and bodybuilding. ''Ass'' (US derivation of Old English ''[[arse, arse ) is considered somewhat vulgar in North America, whereas (backside), (behind), and (bottom) are considered to be old-fashioned and non-specific terms.

Synonyms

* (buttocks or anus) arse , ass (North America), backside, behind, bottom, bum (North America), butt (North America), heinie (North America), fanny (North America), tush (North America), tushie (North America) ** (buttocks specifically) butt cheeks (North America), buttocks (technical), cheeks, glutes (muscles), gluteus maximus (primary muscles) ** (anus specifically) anus (technical), arsehole , asshole (North America) * See also

Verb

(bumm)

(UK, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.

Interjection

(en-interjection)

(label) An expression of annoyance.

* 2010 , Jill Mansell, Sheer Mischief:

Maxine tried hers. 'Oh bum ,' she said crossly. 'The sugar isn't sugar. It's salt.'

Derived terms

* bum bum * bumhole * bums in seats *

Etymology 2

1864,

Noun

(en noun)

(North America, colloquial) A hobo; a homeless person, usually a man.

(North America, Australia, colloquial) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.

''Fred is becoming a bum - he's not even bothering to work more than once a month.

That mechanic's a bum - he couldn't fix a yo-yo.

That guy keeps interrupting the concert. Throw the bum out!

* 1987 , (The Pogues) - (Fairytale of New York)

You're a bum

You're a punk

You're an old slut on junk

Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed

(North America, Australia, colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.

Trade him to another team, he's a bum !

* 2001 , (Laura Hillenbrand) -

Seabiscuit, wrote another reporter, “was a hero in California and a pretty fair sort of horse in the midwest. In the east, however, he was just a ‘bum ’”

(colloquial) A drinking spree.

Synonyms

* (hobo) hobo, homeless person, tramp, vagrant, wanderer, vagabond * (lazy person) loafer, bumpkin, footler, idler, lout, yob, yobbo, layabout * (drinking spree) binge, bender * See also * See also

Verb

(bumm)

(colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.

Can I bum a cigarette off you?

(colloquial) To behave like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter.

I think I'll just bum around downtown for awhile until dinner.

(transitive, slang, British) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).

Synonyms

* cadge (British)

Adjective

(bummer)

Of poor quality or highly undesirable.

bum note

Unfair.

bum deal

Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.

I can't play football anymore on account of my bum knee.

Unpleasant.

He had a bum trip on that mescaline.

Quotations

* (English Citations of "bum")

Synonyms

* (defective) duff (UK)

Derived terms

* bum around * bum bailiff * bum rap * bum's rush * on the bum

Etymology 3

Verb

(bumm)

To depress; to make unhappy.

References

Etymology 4

See boom.

Noun

(en noun)

(dated) A humming noise.

(Halliwell)

Verb

(bumm)

To make a murmuring or humming sound.

(Jamieson)

Etymology 5

Abbreviations.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A bumbailiff.

* 1705 , (Bernard Mandeville), The Fable of the Bees :

About her Chariot, and behind, / Were Sergeants, Bums of every kind, / Tip-staffs, and all those Officers, / That squeeze a Living out of Tears.

Anagrams

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hole

English

(wikipedia hole)

Noun

(en noun)

A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.

*(Bible), 2 (w) xii.9:

*:The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:the holes where eyes should be

* (1809-1892)

*:The blind walls were full of chinks and holes .

*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

#An opening in a solid.

(lb) In games.

#(lb) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.

#(lb) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.

#(lb) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.

#(lb) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.

#(lb) A card (also called a hole card ) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.

An excavation pit or trench.

(lb) A weakness, a flaw

*2011 , - (We Are Young)

*:But between the drinks and subtle things / The holes in my apologies, you know /

(lb) A container or receptacle.

(lb) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.

(lb) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.

(lb) An orifice, in particular the anus.

Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.

(lb) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.

(lb) Difficulty, in particular, debt.

Synonyms

* See also * (solitary confinement) administrative segregation, AdSeg, block (UK), cooler (UK), hotbox, lockdown, pound, SCU, security housing unit, SHU, special handling unit

Derived terms

* ace in the hole * arsehole, asshole * black hole * bolthole * bullet hole * burn a hole in one's pocket * button hole * cakehole * countersunk hole * cubby hole * donut hole * dry hole * electron hole * fox-hole, fox hole, foxhole * glory hole * gnamma hole {{rel-mid3} * gunk-hole * hellhole * hole in one * hole-in-the-wall * hole punch * hole state * holey * in the hole * keyhole * know one's ass from a hole in the ground * loophole * man-hole, manhole * mouse-hole, mousehole * nineteenth hole * pesthole * pigeonhole * pilot hole * poophole * pothole * pritchel hole * rathole * sink hole * sound hole * toad-in-the-hole * top-hole * touch hole * watering hole * white hole * wonky hole

Verb

(hol)

To make holes in (an object or surface).

(by extension) To destroy.

To go or get into a hole.

(Ben Jonson)

To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars

To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.

(hele)

Derived terms

* holeable * holer * hole up

Anagrams

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