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Bum


Definition:

  • (n.) The buttock.
  • (v. i.,) To make murmuring or humming sound.
  • (n.) A humming noise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) How often do we use the term depressed to mean disappointed, mildly bummed out or sort of blue?
  • (2) It’s a good principle: don’t complain to people on whom you’re relying – unless there’s no way they can wipe your steak on their bum or drop a bogey in your soup.
  • (3) Even more graphically than Picasso’s Women of Algiers with their multiple breasts and bums, Nu couché is a sensual masterpiece – and far more conventionally so than anything Picasso painted.
  • (4) "There's this mistaken idea we were just prancing about in platform shoes and bare bums to go against the grain.
  • (5) One turns up for bums, rampant historical misrepresentation and a man in a wig roaring "spiritus sanctus" in a 13th-century CGI inferno.
  • (6) "All those vuvuzuelas must be interfering with Cha Bum-Kun's ability to remote control his robot creation - er, son - Cha Du-ri," suggests Angela K, a South Korean expat in the US.
  • (7) Little Baby Bum is also exploring the potential of getting its content onto connected televisions.
  • (8) Fact is they are fooling the fans fighting all these bums on the back of my name to hype his fights and profile saying I’m running scared.” Eddie Hearn (@EddieHearn) made but enough of the insults.
  • (9) A gurgling loaf with a sheepdog's haircut and a repertoire of Latin bum jokes.
  • (10) But non-gaming children’s channels are also popular: the biggest channel on YouTube in October was toy-unboxing channel DC Toys Collector , with nursery-rhyme channel Little Baby Bum also in the top five on YouTube that month.
  • (11) Further cleavage of Bum fragments with Hpa-1 also revealed inversions of the terminal sequences that contained unique sequences.
  • (12) If you’ve got one video that’s 50 or 60 minutes long, you can just press play and leave your child to watch it while you get something done.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest However, he says that feedback from parents suggests Little Baby Bum is far more than just a digital distraction for their children.
  • (13) Such as the time I was walking down Oxford Street in central London and passed a man who thought it perfectly OK to pat my bum as he went by.
  • (14) Awaiting his razor-sharp skills are four Cambridge lads sporting varying degrees of bum fluff.
  • (15) The flame is never extinguished.” Olympic flame extinguished by Rio protesters Seeking comfort in drivel Alexis Petridis considers Khloe Kardashian’s thoughts on vitamin E vaginal oil, topless model Katie Price’s “double-bum selfie”, or the news that Kris Jenner refused to visit Cuba with the Kardashian brood.
  • (16) So how did a former punk rocker, DJ and self-confessed party animal who became a chef almost by accident (while bumming around Europe he applied to do a cooking course in Belgium so he could get a visa), and from a country with little reputation on the world food scene, change the way people think about Brazilian food?
  • (17) Fury is short, enthusiastic and turns a memorable phrase: the south, he contends, gets a bum rap.
  • (18) And yet, against the odds, Rocky Balboa has been both a critical and commercial success in the US, precisely because it taps into what made the first Rocky film so powerful 30 years earlier: when Rocky ran the steps all those years ago his goal was not to win but to go the distance, to prove to himself that he was somebody and not "just another bum from the neighbourhood".
  • (19) The funniest sketch I’ve ever seen Roger Mann and Kevin Eldon’s “Australian clowns” dialogue in Simon Munnery’s live show Cluub Zarathustra, from 25 years ago, in which the duo described the clowning process in painful detail in stoned Australian beach-bum voices.
  • (20) If somebody’s taken the bother to email – they’ve gone off YouTube to our website, found the contact page and written an email – they deserve to get something back.” Children’s videos are huge on YouTube, with six of its top 10 channels in January aimed at kids: toy-unboxing channels Funtoys Collector and Blu Toys ; Minecraft gamer Stampy ; Little Baby Bum; and two Russian animation channels, Masha and the Bear and GetMovies .

Duff


Definition:

  • (n.) Dough or paste.
  • (n.) A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Instagram is breaking under the weight of Peaches' love for her little grub – and, seeing as she's up the duff again, it will have to migrate to new servers when she has the second.
  • (2) Republic of Ireland (4-4-2): Given; Finnan, Breen, Staunton (Cunningham, 87), Harte (Reid, 73); G Kelly (Quinn, 73), Holland, Kinsella, Kilbane; Robbie Keane, Duff.
  • (3) Elizabeth Duff, senior policy adviser at the NCT, said: “We welcome Nice’s confirmation that women should receive one-to-one care from midwives during labour and postnatal care.
  • (4) Photograph: Michael Duff Running through the whiteboard, she explains that five of the patients belong to one family, including a mother and the newborn baby.
  • (5) When the group did visit No 10, Jim Duff asked the PM if he knew that directors at the Mid Staffs trust had been earning double his salary.
  • (6) 2.03pm BST 59 min: Martin Jol decides to mix it up: Duff is replaced by Bent.
  • (7) Duff & Phelps said there were five bids to buy BHS, but four of the parties withdrew.
  • (8) ET16: In the flurry of protests that followed France's goal - a flurry of protests that saw about six Irish players sprint to the referee shouting "effin' handball" while patting their forearms in the universal sign language for effin' handball - Damien Duff was booked.
  • (9) Duff has worked at the Independent for nine years, predating the Lebedev takeover of 2010.
  • (10) Damien Duff was sharp and Robbie Keane looked in the mood to plunder.
  • (11) The minister, Tory blowhard Duff Cooper, declared: “I won’t have that man on the air.” To say something friendly about Russia was not on the cards for another year.
  • (12) Kevin Doyle was allowed to find space inside the area to head Duff's corner goalwards and Londak's parry was more of a pat, which failed miserably to get the ball out of the danger zone.
  • (13) Up to 40 people are to transfer to the new owners of a cheaper offshoot that had an existing staff of 17, including editor Oliver Duff.
  • (14) Richard Duff asks: "Surely Carragher was wearing a cast on each leg the other night?"
  • (15) Girls, the HBO series about bratty Brooklyn hipsters , got a kicking when it first aired from people who weren't sure they wanted to watch privileged young white women musing on their existential angst, or whether they might be up the duff, or if they just, kind of, like, accidentally smoked crack.
  • (16) Duff told Zhang: “You identified that 100% cashmere sample as 85% cashmere and 15% unidentifiable fibres.
  • (17) Colin Duff, a 29-year-old innovation consultant, moved to London from Scotland five years ago and has saved hard ever since.
  • (18) Duff spoke out after David Lidington, the Tory Europe minister, published the European Union bill which guarantees that any changes to EU treaties that "moves a power or an area of policy from the UK to the EU" will have to be approved in a referendum.
  • (19) I was really pleased with the lads’ performance.” The central defender Michael Duff concurred.
  • (20) Anne-Marie Duff taking on one of the biggest roles in American playwriting, a long-awaited musical by Tori Amos and a gala night celebrating the theatre's history are all on the menu for the National Theatre's 50th anniversary year – not to mention the prospect of Sam Mendes returning to the stage to direct Simon Russell Beale in King Lear early in 2014.

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