bumhood

English

Etymology

From bum +‎ -hood.

Noun

bumhood (uncountable)

  1. The state of being a bum.
    • 1993, Barry Hannah, Bats Out of Hell‎[1], →ISBN, page 186:
      You had Commies, capitalists (ruined, but adhering), even monarchists, in bumhood.
    • 2002, Douglas Preston, The Cabinet of Curiosities: A Novel‎[2], →ISBN:
      It had been depressingly easy to transform him to bumhood.
    • 1996, Identity Papers‎[3], →ISBN:
      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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