Meanings
nounbumhood (uncountable)
- uncountableThe state of being a bum.
It had been depressingly easy to transform him to bumhood.
2002, Douglas Preston, The Cabinet of Curiosities: A Novel, →ISBN2 more examples
You had Commies, capitalists (ruined, but adhering), even monarchists, in bumhood.
1993, Barry Hannah, Bats Out of Hell, →ISBN, page 186In 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.
1996, Identity Papers, →ISBN
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