styme or stime /stīm/ (Scot)

1. A glimmer or glimpse (of light)
2. A tiny amount, jot, particle, etc

To peer

stymie, stimie or stimy /stīˈmi/ noun

1. A purblind person (Scot)
2. A situation on the putting green, once difficult to overcome, in which an opponent's ball blocks the way to the hole, the rules now allowing the obstructing ball to be lifted and its position marked (golf)
3. Hence, a situation from which it is difficult or impossible to proceed

1. To put in such a situation (also lay someone a stymie)
2. To frustrate, thwart, prevent, obstruct, block, stop

• intransigentism
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