CommonParlance
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Ordinary-language usages. Seeded from the Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025, CC BY 4.0.
Context admission
Admitted. Context admission is separate from purpose assessments and factual verdicts.
Why maintain this knowledge?
No justification recorded. This does not mean the knowledge is unjustified; no applicable assessment has been adopted.
Particular uses
These assessments concern specific investigations, audiences, or applications. They do not replace the default justification or authorize other uses.
No particular uses recorded here.
Review or propose an assessment
Purpose authoring is optional. Propose a more specific default or a particular use only when there is something more specific to say. Each proposal includes its scope and reasoning in one market.
Purpose assessments are separate from factual reasoning and context admission. A missing or denied purpose does not change a factual verdict or prevent context creation.
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bum in CommonParlance
- definition of very poor quality; flimsy
- definition a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
- definition a vagrant
- definition person who does no work
- definition the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- definition ask for and get free; be a parasite
- definition be lazy or idle
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bum about in CommonParlance
- definition be lazy or idle
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bum around in CommonParlance
- definition be lazy or idle
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bumble in CommonParlance
- definition make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- definition walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly
- definition speak haltingly
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bumblebee in CommonParlance
- definition robust hairy social bee of temperate regions
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bumbler in CommonParlance
- definition someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
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bumbling in CommonParlance
- definition lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
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bumboat in CommonParlance
- definition a small boat that ferries supplies and commodities for sale to a larger ship at anchor
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bumf in CommonParlance
- definition reading materials (documents, written information) that you must read and deal with but that you think are extremely boring
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bummer in CommonParlance
- definition an experience that is irritating or frustrating or disappointing
- definition a bad reaction to a hallucinogenic drug
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bump in CommonParlance
- definition a lump on the body caused by a blow
- definition something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- definition an impact (as from a collision)
- definition knock against with force or violence
- definition come upon, as if by accident; meet with
- definition dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward
- definition assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- definition remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied
- definition to enjoy some music greatly
- definition to play music at loud volume
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bump around in CommonParlance
- definition shock physically
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bump into in CommonParlance
- definition collide violently with an obstacle
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bump off in CommonParlance
- definition kill intentionally and with premeditation
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bump up in CommonParlance
- definition increase or raise
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bumper in CommonParlance
- definition a glass filled to the brim (especially as a toast)
- definition a mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle to absorb shock and prevent serious damage
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bumper car in CommonParlance
- definition a small low-powered electrically powered vehicle driven on a special platform where there are many others to be dodged
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bumper guard in CommonParlance
- definition vertical bars attached to a bumper to prevent locking bumpers with another vehicle
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bumper jack in CommonParlance
- definition a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper
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bumper-to-bumper in CommonParlance
- definition used of traffic
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bumph in CommonParlance
- definition reading materials (documents, written information) that you must read and deal with but that you think are extremely boring
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bumpiness in CommonParlance
- definition the texture of a surface that has many bumps
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bumpkin in CommonParlance
- definition a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
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bumpkinly in CommonParlance
- definition awkwardly simple and provincial
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bumptious in CommonParlance
- definition offensively self-assertive