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bumming

verb , present participle of bum

Synonyms and Antonyms of bumming

to spend time doing nothing

spent most of the summer just bumming around the house

Synonyms of bumming

chilling, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, droning, footling, goofing (off), hacking (around), hanging about [British], hanging (around or out), idling, kicking around, kicking back, lazing, lazying, loafing, lolling, lounging, vegging out

Words Related to bumming

fiddling (around), fooling, messing, monkeying, mucking, piddling, playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), trifling

dozing, estivating (also aestivating), hibernating

lagging, lingering, loitering, poking, relaxing, resting, tarrying

ambling, moseying, sauntering, strolling, swanning

furloughing, goldbricking, malingering, truanting

Phrases Synonymous with bumming

killing time, twiddling one's thumbs

Near Antonyms of bumming

drudging, grinding, grubbing, humping, hustling, laboring, moiling, pegging, plodding, plowing, plugging, slaving, sweating, toiling, travailing, working

applying, buckling (down)

exerting, putting out

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