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Bums vs Buttocks - What's the difference?

bums | buttocks |

As nouns the difference between bums and buttocks

is that bums is plural of lang=en while buttocks is plural of lang=en.

As a proper noun Bums

is nickname of the Brooklyn Dodgers, later the Los Angeles Dodgers.

bums

English

Proper noun

  • (baseball) Nickname]] of the , later the [[w:Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Dodgers.
  • *1951 , New York Times , "VOICE OF FLATBUSH GOES UP AND DOWN; Loud Shouts of Morning Fall to...", Oct 2, 1951
  • *:The folks were quite happy about Sunday's thrilling reprieve in Philadelphia and happily confident that "d' Bums' ll moider dem Jints"
  • *2007 , Curt Smith, The Voice: Mel Allen's Untold Story , page 111
  • *:To his credit, Allen could not imagine the Jints' or ' Bums unabiding on New York's behalf. "New York is fully capable of supporting three clubs."
  • *2000 , G. Richard McKelvey, The MacPhails: Baseball's First Family of the Front Office , page 38
  • *:The faithful cheered loudly for their beloved Bums'; they jeered loudly at the others teams, especially if they were the hated "' Jints " from the Polo Grounds.
  • *2001 , G. Richard McKelvey, The Bounce: Baseball Teams' Great Falls and Comebacks page 100
  • *:The Polo Grounds, which had been the site of many fierce battles between the "Jints'" and the "' Bums ," was not friendly to the home team.

    • buttocks

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • .
  • * 1707 , , "Moll Quarles's Answer to Mother Creswell of Famous Memory" in The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Tho. Brown, containing Letters from the Dead to the Living both Serious and Comical , part three, page 184:
    • At lea?t five Hundred of the?e reforming Vultures are daily plundering our Pockets, and ran?acking our Hou?es, leaving me ?ometimes not one pair of Tractable Buttocks in my Vaulting-School to provide for my Family, or earn me ?o much as a Pudding for my next Sundays Dinner : [...]
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}