Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
bottomry .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
bottomery .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
bottomry .
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Examples
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I hope none of my hard-earned ie. from a job tax dollars are going to support such blatant bummery!
Fat nigger jokes, SDA-style. CC 2008
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38 Both words have produced derivatives: loaf (noun), to loaf, cornerloafer, common-loafer, to bum, bum (adj.) and bummery, not to mention on the bum.
Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 4. Loan-Words and Non-English Influences Henry Louis 1921
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I think the friends and Ben have generally acknowledged Harmony Korine as as a scumbum director, and many of his films can get pretty unnerving.. not quite in the same way as High Life but I also don’t think (other than Beach Bum) charm is a necessary element in the scum bummery of his work.
Is High Life a good scum-bum movie? Postmaster__General 2025
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