bummer

Meanings

Noun

• A forager, especially in Sherman's March to the Sea of November to December 1864.
• 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.
• A disappointment, a pity, a shame.
• homosexual male

Adjective

• Comparative form or more of bum

Origin

• From German Bummler ("a drifter, a stroller, a rambler, a loiterer, a laggard"), from bummeln.
• From bum + -er.
• From bum + -er.
• From bum + -er.