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▪ I. † ˈbummer1 Obs.
= bumbailiff.
1675Crowne Country Wit iii. 40 I'le go get the writ and bailiffs..my Bummers shall have her in bed.
▪ II. bummer2 Sc.
[f. bum v.2 + -er1.]
That which hums or buzzes; spec. a toy (see quot. 1821).
1821Blackw. Mag. Aug. 35 (Jam.) Bummers—a thin piece of wood swung round by a cord. 1862A. Hislop Prov. Scot. 185 The loudest bummer's no the best bee.
▪ III. bummer3 U.S. slang.|ˈbʌmə(r)|
[cf. Ger. bummler in same sense.]
An idler, lounger, loafer. See also quots. Hence bummerish a.
1855Oregonian (Portland) 27 Jan. 1/4 Come, clear out, you trunken loafer! Ve don't vant no bummers here! 1856San Francisco Call 25 Dec. (Th.), 'Pon my word I'm no bummer. I never ate a lunch in all my life without taking a square drink. 1865Maj. Nicholls Gt. March in Pall Mall G. 23 Sept. 11/2 If it be asked what a ‘bummer’ is, the reply is easy. He is a raider on his own account—a man who temporarily deserts his place in the ranks..and starts out upon an independent foraging expedition. 1865Atlantic Monthly Mar. 286 The brain..a lazy bummer, that lived at the stomach's expense. 1872C. King Sierra Nev. ii. 36 Indians..lying off with that peculiar bummerish ease. 1878Black Green Past. (ed. 2) III. 83 A system of local government controlled by 30,000 bummers, loafers, and dead-beats.
▪ IV. bummer4|ˈbʌmə(r)|
(See quot.)
1905Terms Forestry & Logging 32 Bummer, a small truck with two low wheels and a long pole, used in skidding logs. Syn.: drag cart, skidder.
▪ V. bummer, n.5 orig. and chiefly U.S.|ˈbʌmə(r)|
[f. bum a. + -er1.]
An unpleasant or depressing experience, esp. one induced by a hallucinatory drug (= down trip s.v. down a. 1 e); a disappointment or failure. Freq. as complement to subj.: to be a bummer.
1967J. Didion in Sat. Even. Post 23 Sept. 26/3, I ask if he found a ride to New York. ‘I hear New York's a bummer,’ he says. 1968Electronic Music Rev. Jan. 19 The declaimed lyric is an example of what heads would call a ‘bummer’. 1968T. Leary Politics of Ecstasy viii. 166 The Western world has been on a bad trip, a 400-year bummer. 1970New Yorker 3 Oct. 76/3 The newer kinds of movies don't satisfy anybody... Almost all the films released this summer have been box-office bummers. 1974Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 31 Dec. 15/1 Although a great many students are living together these days I still think the idea is a bummer. 1979N. Mailer Executioner's Song (1980) i. xxi. 343 It was a bummer. Hitchhiking over to the nuthouse, the whole day got lost. 1986D. A. Dye Platoon (1987) v. 67, I ain't no sooner off the chopper than I get a letter from my wife sayin' she wants a fucking divorce. What a bummer, man! 1988Times Lit. Suppl. 10 June 646/4 Twenty or so big fat poets on a tiny stage for the International Reading, which promises to be a bummer. |