All bumming synonyms

verb bumming

• mooch — to borrow (a small item or amount) without intending to return or repay it.
• request — the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition: At his request, they left.
• buzz — If something buzzes or buzzes somewhere, it makes a long continuous sound, like the noise a bee makes when it is flying.
• lazy — averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent.
• cadge — If someone cadges food, money, or help from you, they ask you for it and succeed in getting it.
• beg — If you beg someone to do something, you ask them very anxiously or eagerly to do it.
• trek — to travel or migrate, especially slowly or with difficulty.
• traipse — to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal: We traipsed all over town looking for a copy of the book.
• ramble — to wander around in a leisurely, aimless manner: They rambled through the shops until closing time.
• stray — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
• prowl — to rove or go about stealthily, as in search of prey, something to steal, etc.
• tramp — to tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resounding step.
• meander — to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course: The stream meandered through the valley.
• drum up — a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
• require — to have need of; need: He requires medical care.
• canvass — If you canvass for a particular person or political party, you go around an area trying to persuade people to vote for that person or party.
• ask — If you ask someone something, you say something to them in the form of a question because you want to know the answer.
• bother — If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
• provoke — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
• irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
• urge — to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
• sue — to institute a process in law against; bring a civil action against: to sue someone for damages.
• claim — If you say that someone claims that something is true, you mean they say that it is true but you are not sure whether or not they are telling the truth.
• plead — to appeal or entreat earnestly: to plead for time.
• request — the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition: At his request, they left.
• beg — If you beg someone to do something, you ask them very anxiously or eagerly to do it.
• call for — If you call for someone, you go to the building where they are, so that you can both go somewhere.
• charge — If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
• demand — If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
• appeal — If you appeal to someone to do something, you make a serious and urgent request to them.
• seek — to go in search or quest of: to seek the truth.
• order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
• petition — a formally drawn request, often bearing the names of a number of those making the request, that is addressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power, soliciting some favor, right, mercy, or other benefit: a petition for clemency; a petition for the repeal of an unfair law.
• scrounge — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
• call on — If you call on someone to do something or call upon them to do it, you say publicly that you want them to do it.
• hire — to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
• acquire — If you acquire something, you buy or obtain it for yourself, or someone gives it to you.
• obtain — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
• rent — an opening made by rending or tearing; slit; fissure.
• purr — to utter a low, continuous, murmuring sound expressive of contentment or pleasure, as a cat does.
• strum — to play on (a stringed musical instrument) by running the fingers lightly across the strings.
• moan — a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
• throb — to beat with increased force or rapidity, as the heart under the influence of emotion or excitement; palpitate.
• whisper — to speak with soft, hushed sounds, using the breath, lips, etc., but with no vibration of the vocal cords.
• warble — to sing or whistle with trills, quavers, or melodic embellishments: The canary warbled most of the day.
• croon — If you croon, you sing or hum quietly and gently.
• murmur — a low, continuous sound, as of a brook, the wind, or trees, or of low, indistinct voices.
• sing — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
• mumble — to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
• trill — to cause to flow in a thin stream.