bummer
English
/ˈbʌ.mə(ɹ)/
noun
Definitions
- (obsolete) A forager, especially in Sherman's March to the Sea of November to December 1864.
- (US) An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.
- 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.
Etymology
Borrowed from German Bummler (a drifter, a stroller, a loiterer, loafer, a laggard, a rambler).
Origin
German (Berlin)
Bummler
Gloss
a drifter, a stroller, a loiterer, loafer, a laggard, a rambler