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stymy

stymy 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 stymy

Noun
pluralstymies
Verb
third-person singular presentstymies
present participlestymying
past participlestymied
paststymied

Questions about stymy

What is stymy the alternative spelling of?
Stymy is the alternative spelling of stymie.

Words near stymy in the dictionary

  1. Stymphalian bird
  2. Stymphalian birds
  3. Stymphalians
  4. Stymphalides
  5. Stymphalus
  6. stymy
  7. stymying
  8. stype
  9. stypes
  10. styphnate
  11. styphnates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stymy (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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