bummer
Plural: bummers
Noun
- An unpleasant or disappointing experience or situation.
- an experience that is irritating or frustrating or disappointing
- "having to stand in line so long was a real bummer"
- a bad reaction to a hallucinogenic drug
- A forager, especially in Sherman's March to the Sea of November to December 1864.
- An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.
- A lamb (typically the smallest of a multiple birth) which has been abandoned by its mother or orphaned, and as a consequence is raised in part or in whole by humans.
- A disappointment, a pity, a shame.
- A psychedelic crisis; hallucinogenic drug use producing undesirable dysphoric psychological effects, most often fear, paranoia, and especially horrifying hallucinations; a bad trip.
- A gay man.
Intj
- Exclamation of annoyance or frustration at a bummer (disappointment).
Adj
- comparative form of bum: more bum
Examples
- Drawing three ’I’s and no consonants was a real BUMMER for his rack.
- That's a total bummer.
Origin / Etymology
From German Bummler (“a drifter, a stroller, a rambler, a loiterer, a laggard”), from bummeln (“loaf, loiter, stroll, ramble”).
Synonyms
bloodsucker, bummer, free rider, freeloader, gadfly, leech, mooch, moocher, parasite, scrounge, scrounger, scunge, smell-feast, sponge, sponger, sucker, trencher mate
Scrabble Score: 12
bummer: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbummer: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bummer: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary