What's the difference between bum and rum?

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 .

Rum


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor.
  • (a.) Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow.
  • (n.) A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Now she also dabbles in playwriting and rap, and is in the band Sound of Rum .
  • (2) I DJed the Rum Runner every Tuesday, but it was really interesting every night.
  • (3) • The Film weekly podcast saw host Jason Solomons talk to ... Bruce Robinson (director of Withnail & I) about his new film The Rum Diary ... Errol Morris (director of The Thin Blue Line) about Tabloid - his documentary on Joyce McKinney and the "Manacled Morman" case ... and Guardian film critic Xan Brooks (director of people to decent movies), who helped Jason review Arthur Christmas , The Awakening and Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights .
  • (4) It’s been a very rum version of an open and transparent process.
  • (5) After all who wants democracy when you could have the perfect rum baba?
  • (6) In Brittany we like to add rum to everything – people in the navy used to bring it back from the French Caribbean – but it's optional here.
  • (7) Bow-tied waitresses in miniskirts deliver high-ball rums to men in suits while heavily-painted women sip champagne from their positions on the sidelines.
  • (8) Islands such as San Salvador, Cat Island and Rum Cay were expected to experience the most significant effects later in the day and Friday as the storm begins an expected shift toward the north, forecasters said.
  • (9) Photograph: Jon Tonks for the Guardian Councillors approved Hay-Smith's plans, and knocked back Tesco's, in March 2010 – but then things took another rum turn.
  • (10) This was followed by visits to Cuba by John Kerry , the US secretary of state, and later by Obama himself , then the resumption of commercial flights and the lifting of restrictions on Cuban rum and cigars .
  • (11) It seemed to me that it's pretty basic that when women make up half the population it seems a bit rum to have only just over a quarter of them in the top 10% of earnings.
  • (12) The Rum Diary is a ramshackle jalopy of a movie, a bumpy ride that yields amusements and diversions here and there, and several interesting or loopy performances – including Aaron Eckhart as a slick resort developer Depp takes a dislike to, and Giovanni Ribisi as some breed of alcoholic Nazi-idolator.
  • (13) Among the individual flavors sweetened with 0.025% sodium saccharin, rum, strawberry and raspberry proved to be the most acceptable.
  • (14) Contact the marketing departments for gin, vodka, whiskey and rum brands, and offer them publicity via your social media, or a couple of places at your supper club in exchange for some free stock to serve a welcome drink for your guests.
  • (15) The Ivory Coast may like to be known as Côte d'Ivoire but they're having a rum old time trying to convince anyone to actually do so – in Spain they call it the Costa de Marfil , in Germany they prefer Elfenbeinküste , in Italy it's Costa d'Avorio , in Norway it's Elfenbenskysten and in Hungary it's Elefántcsontpart .
  • (16) Withdrawal from alcohol (ethanol, ethyl alcohol) or other general sedatives leads to progressive hyperactivity that progresses from tremulousness, sleep disturbance, and hallucinosis, to the more serious rum fits and delirium tremens (DTs).
  • (17) Among them: “I can imitate Janis Joplin after two rums.
  • (18) We end our conversation with his party's rum assortment of allies in the European parliament , and another chance to rummage through more arcane rightwing parties that do their thing in Brussels: among them, Helsinki's own True Finns, and the United Poland party.
  • (19) There are other can't-miss-cocktails, with mezcal, whiskey, and rum bases, if tequila is not your poison.
  • (20) The vector, Culex quinquefasciatus (Say), breeds mostly in and around numerous rum distilleries, located exclusively around the periphery of the city, and this undoubtedly accounts for the higher prevalence and intensity of infection among suburban dwellers.

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