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stimy

stimy is the alternative spelling 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 stimy

Noun
pluralstimies
Verb
third-person singular presentstimies
present participlestimying
past participlestimied
paststimied

Questions about stimy

What is stimy the alternative spelling of?
Stimy is the alternative spelling of stymie.

Words near stimy in the dictionary

  1. stimulus delta
  2. stimulus deltas
  3. stimulus-response time
  4. stimulus-response times
  5. stimuluses
  6. stimy
  7. stimying
  8. Stinchar
  9. Stinchcomb
  10. Stinchcombe
  11. Stinchcombs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stimy (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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