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-hood
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bumhood
(
uncountable
)
The state of being a
bum
.
1993
, Barry Hannah,
Bats Out of Hell
[1]
,
→ISBN
, page
186
:
You had Commies, capitalists (ruined, but adhering), even monarchists, in
bumhood
.
2002
, Douglas Preston,
The Cabinet of Curiosities: A Novel
[2]
,
→ISBN
:
It had been depressingly easy to transform him to
bumhood
.
1996
,
Identity Papers
[3]
,
→ISBN
:
In 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.
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