bummerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From German Bummler (“a drifter, a stroller, a rambler, a loiterer, a laggard”), from bummeln (“loaf, loiter, stroll, ramble”).

名詞

bummer (plural bummers)

1. (obsolete, historical) A forager, especially in Sherman's March to the Sea of November to December 1864.
2. (US, slang, dated) An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:scrounger

   • 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXVIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:

     “If I get away I sha’n’t be here,” I says, “to prove these rapscallions ain’t your uncles, and I couldn’t do it if I was here. I could swear they was beats and bummers, that’s all, though that’s worth something.

3. 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.

派生語

• bum (noun)

語源 2

From bum (“make unhappy”) +‎ -er (agent noun suffix), originally US drug slang.

名詞

bummer (plural bummers)

1. (colloquial) A disappointment, a pity, a shame.

   That's a total bummer.

   • 1977, “Peaches”, in Rattus Norvegicus, performed by The Stranglers:

     Looks like I'm gonna be stuck here the whole summer / Well what a bummer / I can think of a lot worse places to be

   • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 54:

     I came to realise that life on crutches is a bummer. It's just fair dinkum like a whole new lifestyle[.]

2. (slang, dated, drug use) A psychedelic crisis; hallucinogenic drug use producing undesirable dysphoric psychological effects, most often fear, paranoia, and especially horrifying hallucinations; a bad trip.
   • 2000, “Phase I”, in Voyage 34: The Complete Trip, performed by Porcupine Tree:

     This young man never had a bummer in some 33 LSD trips. Every one of the them was a delight—everything under control. He needed only to snap his fingers, and down he came, anytime. But on Voyage 34, he finally met himself coming down an up staircase, and the encounter was crushing.

派生語

• Obummer

関連する語

• bum out

参考

• bad trip
• psychedelic crisis

間投詞

bummer

1. (colloquial) Exclamation of annoyance or frustration at a bummer (disappointment).

語源 3

From bum (“engage in anal sex”) +‎ -er (agent noun suffix).

名詞

bummer (plural bummers)

1. (UK, slang, derogatory, offensive) A gay man.
   • Matt (interviewee) quoted in 2021, Laura Dixon, Gender, Sexuality and National Identity in the Lives of British Lifestyle Migrants in Spain (page 108)

     You know, the kind of guy who would, if he wasn't gay, probably be shouting ‘Oi, gay boy!’ or ‘You bummer!’ or even ‘Oi, paki!’ or what have you. They're not enlightened.

派生語

• bumder

語源 4

From bum +‎ -er (comparative suffix).

形容詞

bummer

1. comparative form of bum: more bum

Further reading

• “bummer n. (sodomite)”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
• “bummer n. (tramp)”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
• “bummer n. (bummer trip)”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present