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    [Verb]  | "sty*mie" | \ ˈstī-mē \


    1: to present an obstacle to : stand in the way of


    Origin: 1902 ;

     Scots stimie, stymie to obstruct a golf shot by interposition of the opponent's ball;

    [Verb]  | "stymie" 


    1: to create difficulty for the work or activity of;


      * e.g., " ... the raging blizzard stymied the rescuers' attempts to find the stranded mountain climbers "





     [ "stymie" ]

    1: block, hinder, frustrate

      * e.g.,  ... you stymie me you @#$%er 

     [ "stymie" ]

    1: The character name of one of the "Little Rascals", a black boy who starred along with Buckwheat. He was black, so they gave him a name associated with his shade of skin color, what you'd probably see if you were blind.

      * e.g.,  ... Eddie Murphy got his start making stand-up jokes about all the names given the Little Rascals, particularly Stymie. 


     [ "stymie" ]

    2:  Stymie is Scottish for "blind man.", in particular, one with white eyes like cataracts, thus what they'd call one golf ball blocking another golf ball on the golf green. It really could, with some imagination, look like a man with cataracts.

     [ "stymie" ]

    1: A mix between STINKY and SLIMY.

      * e.g.,  ... A) wow, that girl looks all stymie. 

     [ "stymie" ]

    1: aged to a funky smell. old. rotten. moldy. smelling of fungus.

      * e.g.,  ... that cheese has gotten stymie. 

     [ "stymied" ]

    1: Thwarted, beaten in something you were trying to achieve in.

      * e.g.,  ... Hitler was eventually stymied. 

     [ "stymied" ]

    1: adj. The act of being highly inebriated. Typically used when the person is intoxicated with alcohol as opposed to other drugs. Commonly used in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, NY during the late 80's

      * e.g.,  ... Man, I didn't know what I was doing last night. Drank too many forties, I was stymied!  

     [ "stymiee" ]

    1: (stymieed) v. To confuse others greatly, for fun.

      * e.g.,  ... John decided to celebrate their anniversary he would stymiee his beloved Zach, by acting like the total opposite of himself. 

     [ "stymiee" ]

    1: To be photographed while having a fro.

      * e.g.,  ... "The poor bastard got stymieed when he woke up this morning" 

     [ "stymie" ]

    1: Stymie is a website where you report bulling and / or abuse incidents to your school anonymously, and get someone in / out of trouble. This word can be used as a noun or verb. For example, in noun tense it is just the Stymie website. IN verb tense, it is used as "to Stymie" someone.

      * e.g.,  ... Noun : 

     [ "Stymie" ]

    1: Stymie (See also Stimy, stymying, stymieing)

      * e.g.,  ... In use description 1: The Scottish courts have ruled that proroguing parliament was an unlawful act to Stymie the Brexit debate. 


     [ "Stymie" ]

    2: Def 1: a word used by Scottish courts to describe the pro-rogueing of parliament prior to Brexit;

      * e.g.,  ... In use description 2: So, I heard the Scottish courts have said “pro-rogueing” parliament was to “Stymie” debate about “Brexit”, which is fine. However, can you please confirm: what “Stymie” means; what “proroguing” means; and what “Brexit” means? 


     [ "Stymie" ]

    3: Def 2: a word used by Scottish judges to show they know words in the English language that the majority of English speaking nations have never heard before;


     [ "Stymie" ]

    4: Def 3: a word which 99% of the English speaking world had to look up (on Google, or another search engine, or a dictionary) when they first heard it said aloud (see also pro-rogueing).

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