Bum vs Slacker - What's the difference?

bum | slacker |

As nouns the difference between bum and slacker

is that bum is the buttocks while slacker is one who procrastinates or is lazy.

As a verb bum

is to sodomize; to engage in anal sex.

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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slacker

English

Noun

(wikipedia slacker) (en noun)

One who procrastinates or is lazy.

A person lacking a sense of direction in life; an underachiever.

A person who seeks to avoid military service.

* 1918 September 10, New York Times , "Take Slackers into Army",

[S]everal hundred prisoners captured in North Jersey slacker raids last week and sent to this camp are being Inducted into military service today...

* 1943 September 29, New York Times , "Wheeler assails Bureau 'Slackers'",

Senator Burton K. Wheeler opened his fight in the Senate today..., raising the cry of "slackers " against deferred workers in Government establishments and industry.

(very rare) A user of the Slackware Linux operating system.

* 1996 August 15, stephen benson, "Re: How broken is Infomagic's Redhat linux?", comp.os.linux.setup, Usenet ,

I'm a slacker from way back btw

* 2002 January 15, Josh, "Re: slackware installation issue", comp.os.linux, Usenet ,

Hope you become a happy slacker .

* 2007 May 16, Dan C, "Re: Distro Poll, what do you use?", alt.os.linux, Usenet ,

Any real Slacker would know better than to top-post, AND post a bunch of HTML-crap to boot. You're not worthy.

A member of a certain 1990s subculture associated with Generation X.