What is another word for bum?

“Upon graduating, she plans to defer college for a year and go abroad, not to study or even bum around Europe but to squat in an abandoned building in London, like a true punk.”

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Get by asking or begging

“They tried to bum quarters off us.”

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To travel unsystematically over, through, or about (a place)

go hither and thither

reconnoiter^US

reconnoitre^UK

socialize^US

socialise^UK

go for a constitutional

have a night on the town

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To annoy, irritate or exasperate (someone)

antagonise^UK

antagonize^US

get on somebody's nerves

get on someone's nerves

make someone's blood boil

ruffle someone's feathers

try someone's patience

get someone's goat

get under someone's skin

get up someone's nose

make someone's hackles rise

get someone's back up

get on someone's wick

give someone the hump

drive round the twist

grate on

disgust

get in someone's hair

rattle someone's cage

get someone's dander up

drive you up the wall

gnaw at

rouse

put someone's back up

sour

raise someone's hackles

bore

wound

put someone's nose out of joint

agonize^US

rub you up the wrong way

agonise^UK

weigh heavily on someone's mind

cause anxiety to

affect

dun

tantalize^US

victimize^US

tantalise^UK

demoralize^US

set one's teeth on edge

keep on at

get someone's hackles up

be a thorn in someone's flesh

breathe down someone's neck

get on nerves

strain

throw off balance

demoralise^UK

victimise^UK

ask for it

get in one's hair

distemper

be a pain in the neck

be a thorn in someone's side

make your hackles rise

put somebody's nose out of joint

get up somebody's nose

get on the wrong side of

rattle someone's chain

scandalize^US

put somebody's back up

put your nose out of joint

stroke someone's hair the wrong way

pressurize^US

pressurise^UK

ruffle one's feathers

scandalise^UK

rub one the wrong way

be like a red rag to a bull

get on the wrong side of somebody

make somebody's hackles rise

make an enemy of somebody

push someon's buttons

set your teeth on edge

terrorize^US

be a weight on someone's mind

be in someone's hair

bring pressure to bear on

interrupt

despair

set someone's teeth on edge

terrorise^UK

make someone go out of his way

cause someone difficulty

give someone bother

be a nuisance to

put someone to trouble

discommodate

drive you to distraction

breath down someone's neck

drive you round the twist

drive you round the bend

drive you off your head

make things hot for someone

make it hot for someone

stick the knife into

make one's hackles rise

horrify

slur

get on someone's case

exhaust someone's patience

drive you out of your mind

drive out of mind

make somebody's blood boil

drive somebody up the wall

put someone off their stroke

cause someone to lose their composure

tread on someone's toes

be an affront to

hurt somebody's feelings

hurt someone's feelings

rub somebody the wrong way

misuse

deride

abase

dishonor^US

smoulder^UK

dishonour^UK

smolder^US

eat away at one's mind

cause annoyance

cause resentment

gnaw at one's mind

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To implore or make a request for

inquire^US

enquire^UK

hypothesize^US

put in an application

hypothesise^UK

mobilize^US

mobilise^UK

present one's suit to

make an urgent request

resort to

make a plea

make an earnest request

submit an application

realize^US

theorize^US

realise^UK

authorize^US

authorise^UK

theorise^UK

request the pleasure of someone's company

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Verb

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Make a low, steady continuous sound like that of a bee

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