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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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bum
verb
to boast, brag:
He was the biggest show-off, and none of the Travellers liked to stay beside him, because of his bumming.
19-
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etymology:
Scots; possibly a variant English
boom
where it is now obsolete; attested by
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