Crossword clues for bummer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bummer \bum"mer\ (b[u^]m"[~e]r), n.
An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a loafer; a dissipated sponger; one who bums. [Slang, U.S.]
an unpleasant event, experience, or situation; as, getting caught in a cloudburst while wearing my best suit was a bummer. [Slang, U.S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"loafer, idle person," 1855, possibly an extension of the British word for "backside" (similar development took place in Scotland by 1540), but more probably from German slang bummler "loafer," agent noun from bummeln "go slowly, waste time."\n
\nAccording to Kluge, the German word is from 17c., and the earliest sense of it is "oscillate back and forth;" possibly connected to words in German for "dangle" (baumeln), via "back-and-forth motion" of a bell clapper, transferred to "going back and forth," hence "doing nothing." Meaning "bad experience" is 1968 slang.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context obsolete English) A forager especially in Sherman's March to the Sea of November to December 1864. 2 (context US slang dated English) An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. 3 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. Etymology 2
a. (en-comparativebum) Etymology 3
interj. Exclamation of annoyance or frustration at a bummer (disappointment). n. (context chiefly slang English) A disappointment, a pity, a shame. Etymology 4
n. (context British slang uncommon English) homosexual male
WordNet
n. 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
Usage examples of "bummer".
The whole bunch of sodomistic ballerinas -- Rectum Steve, Cocky Paulo, Shitstabber Jacky, Bummer Nige and the rest -- are beside themselves.
As a boy he had dreamed of finding this lost family treasure, and here in LA the bummer cinematographer, who was also to die in suspicious circumstances, presented the object to him with a stern warning of the negative powers attached to the relic.
Liam eased Norton back to the ground, crouched, and braced himself as Bummer jumped into his lap with a joyful yip.
Chen had only a moment to nod before Bummer began performing fantastic acrobatic leaps about his soft-shod feet.
She caught Bummer and lifted the terrier over the back of the seat and into her lap.
She gazed at the cable car while Bummer barked at a mongrel on the sidewalk.
The dogs were with herNorton bounding ahead and doubling back again, Bummer chasing the waves at her feet.
They came running, Bummer dancing around and around his feet and Norton leaning companionably against his side.
Attwood caught the Bummer Twins in his hut snogging with the two window cleaners who came to do the Science block windows!
It will probably be a while before The Angst lifts -- but whenever it happens I will get out of bed again and start writing the mean, cold-blooded bummer that I was not quite ready for today.
The events of the past six months had so badly jangled the nerves of the invited guests -- the staffers and journalists who had been with McGovern from New Hampshire all the way to Sioux Falls on election day -- that nobody really wanted to go to the party, for fear that it might be a funeral and a serious bummer.
We hoped you would be on the square, but we couldn't be sure you were not bummers lying in ambuscade.
Most recently, since that damned Sheridan pulled out, we've had bunches of bummers come looking to sack anything that the regulars might have left.
The latest bummers had used the remains of the tar that had earlier been daubed on the Furfew family portraits.
It had to be spaded and forked deep, to accommodate their detritus of dead bummers, and then firmed flat again before the curbing could be heaped up around it.