different between bummer vs gummer

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?m?(?)

Etymology

gum +? -er

Noun

gummer (plural gummers)

1. A person or machine that applies gum.
   • 1871, Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts (page 299)

     […] then goes to the gummer, who applies a gum comprising oxide of gold and other ingredients.

2. A punch-cutting tool, or machine for deepening and enlarging the spaces between the teeth of a worn saw.
3. A cow or sheep etc. that has lost all of its teeth.