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▪ I. stymie, n.1 Sc.|ˈstaɪmɪ|
In 7 pl. stymeis.
[? f. styme v. + -ie.]
One who does not see well.
1616in Pitcairn's Crim. Trials (Bannatyne Club) III. ii. 588 Gif those howlattis and stymeis [i.e. the courtiers] war schote away. 1808Jamieson s.v. Styme v., It also denotes the aukward motions of one who does not see well. Hence a person of this description is vulgarly called a blind stymie.
▪ II. stymie, n.2 Golf.|ˈstaɪmɪ|
Also steimy, stimy.
[Of obscure origin: cf. prec. and styme n. and v.]
An opponent's ball which lies on the putting green in a line between the ball of the player and the hole he is playing for, if the distance between the balls is not less than six inches; also, the occurrence of this; often in the phrase to lay a stymie.
1834Rules of Musselburgh Golf Club in C. B. Clapcott Rules of Golf of 10 Oldest Golf Clubs (1935) 66 With regard to Stimies the ball nearest the hole if within six inches shall be lifted. 1857H. B. Farnie in Golfiana Misc. (1887) 173 Wooden putters are used to play stimies when the intercepting ball is at some distance from that of the player. A curving-in motion is imparted to the ball, causing it to pass the stimy. 1862Remarks on Golf 17 The iron is..used for lofting what are called steimies. A steimy occurs when your opponent's ball lies so directly in a line between the hole and your own ball that you cannot hole by putting. The only resource..is to take the iron and ‘loft’ your ball over the steimy and into the hole. It is not considered quite fair to play intentionally so as to lay a steimy. 1894Times 28 Apr. 13/3 Mr. Ball left his opponent a stimie and Mr. Laidlay in trying to hole out sent his opponent's ball in. 1897Westm. Gaz. 10 Dec. 9/3 His partner laid him a stimie.
attrib.1857H. B. Farnie in Golfiana Misc. (1887) 172 These clubs are handled for stimy-playing on the same principle.
▪ III. ˈstymie, v.
[f. stymie n.2]
1. trans. Golf. To put (one's opponent or oneself) into the position of having to negotiate a stymie; also intr. (of a ball) to intervene as a stymie.
1857H. B. Farnie in Golfiana Misc. (1887) 172 The ball stimying may be lifted if within six inches of that of the player, until the stroke is done. 1894A. Lang in Daily News 5 July 5/2 A man often stimies himself, by a bad putt. 1896R. B. Mansfield New & Old Chips 320 When he stimied me, I managed to play round him into the hole. 1901Scotsman 5 Sept. 7/3 Mr. Worthington was stimied and in trying to loft, knocked Mr. Williamson's ball into the hole.
2. fig. To impede, obstruct, frustrate, thwart (a person, an activity, or a project).
1902G. Ade Girl Proposition 70 In about 8 minutes he had the Regular Fellow stymied and Hazel was leaning against him. 1922A. Haddon Green Room Gossip vii. 154, I looked like being stymied because I couldn't sing in tune. 1933Wodehouse Mulliner Nights v. 183 There came the shrill cry of a Hunting Bishop stymied by a hat-stand. 1938East Liberty (Pittsburgh) Tribune 26 Aug. 1/5 (heading) New recreation center at Mellon Field ‘stymied’. 1946J. W. Day Harvest Adventure xvi. 274 Mr John Loverseed..raised this whole question..in spite of repeated attempts by the Ministry of Agriculture to stymie him. 1957Economist 2 Nov. 389/1 It is hard to visualise Afghans and Albanians, Salvadoreans and Sudanese quickly triumphing over the very real difficulties that have stymied the five-power group. 1966L. Durrell in Sat. Even. Post 4 June 68/3 Coco was for selling her to a local clinic, but once more we were stymied by this public holiday. The clinic was shut. 1980Daily Tel. 28 July 24/3 France's participation in the military force had merely been to stymie an intended intervention by troops from Pacific area countries.
Hence ˈstymied ppl. a. (also fig.).
1862Remarks on Golf 17 Steimies..frequently occur, and often cause the hole to be halved which the steimied man felt confident of winning. 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 844/1 Stymied,..awkwardly placed; nonplussed. 1974P. De Vries Glory of Hummingbird vii. 97, I was worried about a stymied affair with a girl with whose parents I was getting on swimmingly. |