Meaning of bumhood | Babel Free

Definitions

The state of being a bum.

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“You had Commies, capitalists (ruined, but adhering), even monarchists, in bumhood.”

“It had been depressingly easy to transform him to bumhood.”

“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.”

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