Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word bum-freezer.
Examples
-
A youth in a bum-freezer absently sloshed a pail of soapy water across the pavement, forming a black bloodstain.
Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008
-
Even the Eton collar and the bum-freezer jacket was familiar to me!
Brave and True Short stories for children by G. M. Fenn and Others George Manville Fenn 1870
-
In practical terms, we often barely get it right - barely being the operative word, considering the number of 'bum-freezer' jackets worn with skinny jeans with the knees ripped out, I have spotted tottering through the snow in the last few days.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
-
In practical terms, we often barely get it right - barely being the operative word, considering the number of 'bum-freezer' jackets worn with skinny jeans with the knees ripped out, I have spotted tottering through the snow in the last few days.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
-
In practical terms, we often barely get it right - barely being the operative word, considering the number of 'bum-freezer' jackets worn with skinny jeans with the knees ripped out, I have spotted tottering through the snow in the last few days.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
-
From the immaculately pressed bum-freezer suit to the greasy quiff and richly lacquered Gretsch guitars he seems to be from a different, less complex, time.
-
From the immaculately pressed bum-freezer suit to the greasy quiff and richly lacquered Gretsch guitars he seems to be from a different, less complex, time.
-
(an appalling monocled child in Etonian bum-freezer and pin-striped trousers) and cloth -- capped, scuffkneed Bert -- and the dastardly foe, Hawful Hadolf and the Nastiparts (a bunch of thuggish fiends, each of whom had one extremely nasty part, e.g. a steel hook instead of a hand, feet like claws, teeth that could bite through your arm).
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
bilby commented on the word bum-freezer
"The current fashion for jeans and bum-freezer jackets is a return to long-vanished kinds of display. Flared trousers were worn by the Incroyables of the Empire, and the purpose is now, as it was then, to make the thighs seem more lissom and the buttocks perter. Tight, high-waisted trousers are almost as revealing as the delicately coloured Inexpressibles which were hauled taught over the genitals by the first suspenders."
- 'What turns women on', Germaine Greer in Esquire, 1973.
April 14, 2008