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stimie

stimie is the obsolete form of stymie.

Meaning of stymie

Noun

stymie (plural stymies)

  1. A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952).
  2. (broadly) An obstacle or obstruction.
    • Mary, will you be mine? Shall we go round together? Will you fix up a match with me on the links of life which shall end only when the Grim Reaper lays us both a stymie?1922, P. G. Wodehouse, The Clicking of Cuthbert

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Forms of stimie

pluralstimies

Questions about stimie

What is stimie the obsolete form of?
Stimie is the obsolete form of stymie.

Words near stimie in the dictionary

  1. Stimeling
  2. stimfap
  3. stimfapped
  4. stimfapping
  5. stimfaps
  6. stimie
  7. stimied
  8. stimies
  9. stiminate
  10. stimk
  11. stimky

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stimie (page history and authors); stymie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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