bumhood

English

Etymology

From bum +‎ -hood.

Noun

bumhood (uncountable)

1. 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.