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Misery vs Bummer - What's the difference?

misery | bummer |

As nouns the difference between misery and bummer

is that misery is great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe while bummer is (obsolete) a forager especially in sherman's march to the sea of november to december 1864 or bummer can be a disappointment, a pity, a shame or bummer can be (british|slang|uncommon) homosexual male.

As an adjective bummer is

(bum).

As an interjection bummer is

exclamation of annoyance or frustration at a bummer (disappointment).

misery

English

Noun

(miseries)
  • Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
  • Ever since his wife left him you can see the misery on his face .
  • Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
  • (Extreme) poverty.
  • Greed; avarice.
  • Synonyms

    * see

    Derived terms

    * put out of one's misery

    bummer

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A forager especially in Sherman's March to the Sea of November to December 1864.
  • (US, slang, dated) An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.
  • A lamb (typically the smallest of a multiple birth) which has been abandoned by its mother or orphaned, and as a consequence is raised in part or in whole by humans.
  • Derived terms
    * (noun)

    Etymology 2

    From bum + .

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (bum)
  • Etymology 3

    From bum + .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A disappointment, a pity, a shame.
  • That's a total bummer .

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Exclamation of annoyance or frustration at a bummer (disappointment).
  • Etymology 4

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, slang, uncommon) homosexual male