Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person regarded as blundering or inept.
- noun A punch-drunk or second-rate prizefighter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
blundering orawkward person - noun An inept
prizefighter - noun A
bum (homeless person)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a second-rate prize fighter
- noun an awkward stupid person
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Examples
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Cantrell is no stumblebum as Holston's running mate.
IA Independents 2009
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA @ This GOP pansy attempting to call Clinton a “stumblebum”.
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Why is it that an agency can hire a guy who is so good at one agency and turn him into a stumblebum in their own agency?
From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor Jerry Della Femina 2010
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As a foil for the ingenious Hardy Boys, he created two stumblebum local police officers, Chief Collig and Deputy Smuff, who dithered and blundered and misinterpreted clue after clue.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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Just to name one example of stumblebum leadership, the Obama administration could have put the economy in a much better place simply by reading the Huffington Post columns of economists like Dean Baker and Robert Reich, who have a demonstrably better track record of prognostication then Larry Summers or Timothy Geightner.
Lee Stranahan: Obama's Double-Dip Disappointment Is Bad for Business 2010
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As a foil for the ingenious Hardy Boys, he created two stumblebum local police officers, Chief Collig and Deputy Smuff, who dithered and blundered and misinterpreted clue after clue.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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This will be great fodder for those who say BP doesn't know what it's doing and is a stumblebum and everything has gone wrong.
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Why is it that an agency can hire a guy who is so good at one agency and turn him into a stumblebum in their own agency?
From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor Jerry Della Femina 2010
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None of the girls could fathom that stumblebum Belva now.
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As a foil for the ingenious Hardy Boys, he created two stumblebum local police officers, Chief Collig and Deputy Smuff, who dithered and blundered and misinterpreted clue after clue.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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