| 单词 | to bum one's chat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bum one's chat (also load, loaf, chaff) Chiefly Scottish. to bum one's chat (also load, loaf, chaff): to make a boastful and probably dubious claim, esp. in an attempt to impress someone; to boast. ΚΠ 1919 J. H. V. Crofts Field Ambulance Sketches 87 When I have heard him ‘bumming his chat’ to Infantry men, I have felt ashamed of the very cross on my sleeve. c1950 R. McLeish Gorbals Story iv, in Sc. People's Theatre (Assoc. Sc. Lit. Stud.) (2008) 53 Ye jist keep talkin—bumming your chat intae their ear. 1974 G. M. Fraser McAuslan in Rough 45 I'll use that on Pipe-Major Macdonald, the next time he starts bumming his chat. 1995 A. Warner Morvern Callar (1996) 27 The Paul one was bumming his loaf about a university in a city and I should visit and that. 2004 L. Marney No Wonder I take Drink xxvii. 268 He had caught me showing off, bumming my load. < as lemmas |
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