Bummer gay
bummer / What a bummer!
Please observe that the topic of internet searches has been commented on in this forum many times. The raw figure given on the first page of a Google find is rarely correct, and may be several orders of magnitude away from reality. To uncover a more precise figure you want to click through to the last page of the search - which can be a very tedious process. It is also worth keeping in mind that claimed etymology in the Urban Dictionary is unreliable.Lincoln Lad said:
An internet hunt of the words +bummer and +homosexual gives nearly 7 million hits, making detailed reference to this use of the term.
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It is entirely possible that schoolboys in Lincolnshire in the 1960s used the word to mean homosexual. However, it seems highly unlikely that the word moved at astonishing speed from schoolboys in Lincolnshire to drug users in the USA and at the same time transformed into a totally different meaning. The absence of a homosexual meaning for bummer in the OED suggests a lack of examples in print.
I doubt very much that the editor of the OED has confused bum = tramp with bummer - in any case there are examples in the OED and
When somethingbadhappens.
- Bummer! There's a hole in the boat
- Bummer! There's a bomb in the bus
- Bummer! There's an old person in the car
- Bummer! There's a dead guy in the airplane
- Bummer! There's a blind guy driving the mini-van
- Bummer! There's a hippy in the Anti-Earth hour national meeting
- Bummer! There's a Jew above Hitlers grave
- Bummer! There's a hippy on the road infront of the double decker bus
by MEGAZOR April 07, 2010
Bummer (noun)
1) A derogatory label for a homosexual of either gender. Origin: 1350–1400; Middle English bom, sense the buttocks
2) A term one uses when disappointed
Guy 1: Dude, what’s with that guy’s mustache, is he a fag?
Guy 2: That word is revolting, you can’t use it anymore!
Guy 1: I can’t say fag anymore? Bummer.
Guy 2: Don’t start calling me names, you butt-pirate
by :-|D June 02, 2011
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Green’s Dictionary of Slang
bummern.2
1. (US campus) a ‘fast’ immature man [? bummer n.3 ].
| Broadway Belle (NY) 1 Jan. n.p.: The ‘Ham Guard’ was founded by Captain Jack Appleton, the Bummer King [...] This fine company — formerly known as the ‘Bummer Cadets’ — continues with full ranks. | |
| Criminal Life (NY) 19 Dec. n.p.: We have the names of those bummers that display around 17th street [...] every night . | |
| L.H. BaggFour Years at Yale 43: Bum, a spree, culture supper, or convivial business of any sort, guiltless or otherwise. Used also as a verb; whence is derived bummer, a fast young man, a fellow who bums. [Ibid.] 527: The number even of moderate ‘bummers’ – who perhaps ‘get tight’ once or twice a year, at the moment of a society supper or some special celebration – is comparatively small. |
2. (gay, alsobummy-boy) an ‘active’ male homosexual, sodomite [bum n.1 (1)].