different between bummer vs dogie

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.m?(?)/

• Rhymes: -?m?(r)

Etymology 1

From German Bummler (“a drifter, a stroller, a rambler, a loiterer, a laggard”), from bummeln (“loaf, loiter, stroll, ramble”).

Noun

bummer (plural bummers)

1. (obsolete, historical) A forager, especially in Sherman's March to the Sea of November to December 1864.
2. (US, slang, dated) An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:scrounger

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.

Derived terms

• bum (noun)

Etymology 2

From bum + -er (“comparative forming”).

Adjective

bummer

1. comparative form of bum: more bum

Etymology 3

From bum +? -er (agency forming).

Noun

bummer (plural bummers)

1. (colloquial) A disappointment, a pity, a shame.

Related terms

• bum out

Interjection

bummer

1. (colloquial) Exclamation of annoyance or frustration at a bummer (disappointment).

Translations

Etymology 4

From bum (“buttocks”) + -er (“agency forming”).

Noun

bummer (plural bummers)

1. (Britain, slang, uncommon) homosexual male

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• dogey
• dogy

Etymology

Unknown

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?do??i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d???i/
• Rhymes: -???i

Noun

dogie (plural dogies)

1. (US, regional, colloquial) A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow. [from 19th c.]
   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 49:

     When she was a child, her father often gave her orphaned calves to look after, and every so often, she would fold the grown ones in with the steers when they were shipped off to Fort Worth. She made enough money off her dogies to make investments in stocks […]

Synonyms

• bum calf
• bummer
• leppy (primarily in Spanish-speaking areas)

See also

• doggie

References

• WordNet 3.0, Princeton University

Anagrams

• Diego, diego, geoid