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stumer slang.|ˈstjuːmə(r)|
Also stumor.
[Of unknown origin.]
1. a. A forged or dishonoured cheque; a counterfeit bank-note or coin; a sham. Also attrib., as stumer cheque.
1890Blackw. Mag. June 793 ‘Stumer’ is slang for a worth⁓less cheque. a1897Sporting Times in Barrère & Leland Slang Dict. s.v., My collection of writs, pawn tickets, un⁓receipted bills, stumers [etc.]. 1897Hall Caine Christian iv. iv. 376 A ‘thick'un’? Oh, that was a sovereign,..twenty-five pounds a ‘pony’, five hundred a ‘monkey’, flash notes were ‘stumers’. 1911A. G. C. Through a College Keyhole 13 For Maeterlinck's bird was a stumor, I've heard. 1912L. Williams in Daily News 19 Dec. 7/4, I did pass a bad florin, guv'nor, but I did it innocent. I didn't know it was a stumer. 1926F. M. Ford Man could stand Up ii. iii. 140 Two [were] awaiting court-martial for giving stumer cheques. 1944P. Cheyney They never say When i. 18 Tell him to get in touch with Effie and get that stumer cheque from her and issue a writ against Swayle. 1962Listener 11 Jan. 98/1 People who cash stumer cheques. 1972L. Lamb Picture Frame xvii. 149 Nice old Mr. Murgatroyd got your picture back from the man who gave you a stumer cheque.
b. Austral. Also stoomer |-uː-|. (See quots.)
1898Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Dec. (Red Page), A stoomer or stumer is a man without money. 1900–10O'Brien & Stephens Materials Dict. Austral. Slang (MS.), Come a stoomer, stake a bet and lose everything. 1941S. J. Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 73 Stumer, (in gambling or racing) a bankrupt, a defaulter... Come a stumer, to crash financially, esp. in a racing bet.
2. gen. Something which is worthless; a failure, a ‘flop’, a ‘dud’. Also used of persons.
1886–96A. R. Marshall in Farmer & Henley Slang (1903) VII. 18/1 The merry stumer. 1902Sporting Times 1 Feb. 3/1 He..had given her as security a ‘stumer’ in the shape of an unfinished history of Corsica. 1923Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xii. 132 The agony of having put his little all on a stumer that hadn't finished in the first six. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 273 Stumer, an expression used commonly to denote a shell that had failed to explode. 1928Galsworthy Swan Song ii. iv. 140 There is no good in me... You've pitched on a stumer. 1934Punch 10 Jan. 50/1 Myself... No, drama. Young couple sight-seeing in mine. Old Miner guide. Roof falls, water rises. Daphne. Sounds like a stumer. Are you going to give it a run? 1970Daily Tel. 9 Feb. 15/1 While in the course of a year countless shares will establish new lows only half a dozen will turn out to be real stumers and eventually worthless. 1976Times 21 Feb. 15/3 Eclecticism guarantees that in a period like this the [Tate] collection will come to include a fair proportion of stumers. 1980R. Hill Spy's Wife iv. 25 Don't be such a stumer!.. Fetch them.
3. Also stuma. A state of agitation; a sweat or ‘stew’.
1932Auden in Rev. Eng. Studies (1978) Aug. 284 Poor old Ma in a perfect stuma. 1936― Look, Stranger! 36 Behind your simple sense of humour You hide the boss's simple stuma. 1941S. J. Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 73 Stumer, in a, in a ‘stew’, worried, angry. |