stumer

English

Etymology

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Noun

stumer (plural stumers)

1. (UK) Something worthless or counterfeit.
2. (UK, slang) A racehorse that is sure to lose.
   • 1923 May 17, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “(please specify the page)”, in The Inimitable Jeeves, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     […] the agony of having put his little all on a stumer that hadn't finished in the first six.

References

• “stumer”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

• Sumter, estrum, muster, mustre, muters, turmes