bare-bum
See also: barebum
English
Alternative forms
- barebum
Etymology
bare + bum.
Adjective
bare-bum (not comparable)
- (literally) With one's bottom exposed, as for a spanking or a mooning.
- (by extension) Stark naked.
- 1992, Louise Leblanc, Maddie in Goal (trans. Sarah Cummins), Formac (1992; original French book published 1991), →ISBN, page 12:
- "Of course I do, Gran! Julian is always walking around bare-bum. I know all about boys and girls. And love and babies and all."
- 1992, Martie Sterling, "My Last, Last Run", Ski, April 1992:
- Having never experienced communal bare-bum soaking European style, I was sure I'd wandered into the men's room.
- 2009, John B. Duffield, A Cry for Help, →ISBN, page 21:
- We discovered trout and bears and foxes. And bees[sic] nests! Not to mention how to swim bare-bum down rocky falls.
- 1992, Louise Leblanc, Maddie in Goal (trans. Sarah Cummins), Formac (1992; original French book published 1991), →ISBN, page 12:
Synonyms
- bare-arse
- bareass
- bare-butt
Translations
with the bum exposed
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