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bumsen
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German
Alternative forms
- b*msen (censored)
Etymology
From the onomatopoeic interjection bums, bum + -sen (iterative suffix). The sexual sense rose to prominence in the mid of the twentieth century, when before rumsen was used the same way, now not known any more.
Pronunciation
Verb
bumsen (weak, third-person singular present bumst, past tense bumste, past participle gebumst, auxiliary haben)
- (colloquial, intransitive, dated) to thud
- (colloquial, transitive or intransitive, somewhat dated) to have sex
- 1974, Heinrich Böll, Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum [The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum], Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, →ISBN, page 185:
- Er sagte »Na, Blümchen, was machen wir zwei denn jetzt?« Ich sagte kein Wort, wich ins Wohnzimmer zurück, und er kam mir nach und sagte: »Was guckst du mich denn so entgeistert an, mein Blümelein—ich schlage vor, daß wir jetzt erst einmal bumsen.«
- He said, "Well, Blümchen, what are the two of us doing now?" I didn't say a word, stepped back into the living room, and he came after me and said: "What are you looking at me so disconcerted, my Blümelein - I suggest that we're going to boink now. "
Conjugation
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
- Autobumser
- Bumsen
- Bumser
- Bumserei
- bumsfidel
- durchbumsen
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