stumblebumn.
/ˈstʌmb(ə)lbʌm/ a. A worthless, clumsy, or inept person; a ‘down and out’, a drunkard.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess
houndOE
drinkerc1200
keach-cup?c1225
gulchcupa1250
bollerc1320
taverner1340
ale stake?1515
wine-bibber1535
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swill-bowl1542
malt-wormc1550
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tosspot1568
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suck-spigot1585
bezzle1592
bezzlera1593
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carouser1596
barley-cap1598
swiller1598
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Philistine1600
sponge1600
wine-knight1601
fill-knaga1605
reel-pot1604
faithful1609
fill-pot1609
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spigot-sucker1611
suck-pint1611
whip-can1611
bib-all-night1612
afternoon man1615
potling1616
Bacchanalian1617
bombard1617
pot-shot1617
potisuge1620
trougha1625
tumbrila1625
borachioa1627
pot-leech1630
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son of Bacchusc1640
shuffler1642
suck-bottlea1652
swill-pot1653
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fuddle cap1666
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bubber1669
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ale-toast1691
Bacchant1699
fuddler1699
swill-belly1699
tickle-pitcher1699
whetter1709
draughtsmanc1720
bender1728
drammer1740
dram-drinker1744
drammist1756
rum-bud1805
siper1805
Bacchanal1812
boozera1819
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soak1820
imp of the spigot1821
polyposist1821
wineskin1821
sack-guzzler1823
sitfast1828
swill-flagon1829
cup-man1834
swiper1836
Lushington1851
lushing-man1859
bloat1860
pottle pot1860
tipsificator1873
tipsifier1873
pegger1874
swizzler1876
bibulant1883
toss-cup1883
lusher1895
stew-bum1902
shicker1906
stiff1907
souse1915
booze-hound1926
stumblebum1932
tanker1932
lush-hound1935
lushy1944
lush-head1945
binge drinker1946
pisshead1946
hophead1948
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > inaptitude or awkwardness > person
muff1819
muffin1830
jackleg1844
stumer1891
stumblebum1932
1932 E. Hemingway Death in Afternoon 297 American word would be awkward bum, stumble-bum, flat-footed tramp.
1935 Punch 11 Dec. 652/3 An American gangster is stated to have begun his career by starting as a stumble~bum.
1936 J. Tulley Bruiser v. 48 Don't let these palookers around here laugh you outta seein' me go—all you'll ever get outta these stumble bums is the holes in the doughnuts.
1940 G. Frankau Self-portrait xxxi. 178 The good old English word for a posterior, which possesses a different meaning (cf. ‘stumblebum’—a guy who comes home drunk) in America.
1954 Sun (Baltimore) 11 Feb. 1/4 He became a ragged stumble-bum, raging drunkenly through the village and selling mediocre poetry.
1955 D. Keene Who has Wilma Lathrop? x. 93 He had a stubble of beard that made him look like a stumblebum.
1966 A. La Bern Goodbye Piccadilly xii. 113 These stumble-bums may have stumbled across the real culprit.
1970 Guardian 25 Sept. 10/5 Iago is a red-necked farm boy... He's a stumblebum.
1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Sept. 1042/1 The Eisenhower of the war years has lost much of his lustre, and the successful organizer of Montgomery, Bradley and Patton has been reduced by some writers to the level of a strategic stumble-bum.
b. attributive or as adj. Also figurative.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > awkward or inept
unrekena1325
untoward1557
unfeatya1586
unhappy1651
ungaina1657
unadept1830
jackleg1833
jack-legged1839
inapt1860
inadept1875
unpractical1890
raunchy1937
stumblebum1940
ham1941
1940 Topeka (Kansas) Daily Capital 16 Jan. 4/4 Russia's stumblebum campaign in Finland.
1952 B. Wolfe Limbo (1953) vi. xxii. 372 It made its slapstick stumblebum way back and forth.
1975 N. Freeling What are Bugles blowing For? xii. 75 Airs and graces with plain stumblebum cops.
1981 Washington Post 23 July c9/4 Joe Benjamin has a nihilistic, stumblebum-drunk son (splendidly played by Michael Rothhaar).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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