Bummer, the small-disappointment word, traces back to German bummler, a loafer or drifter. English soon had bum in a similar sense, and its negative associations later attached to phrases such as bum deal, bum rap, and bum trip. By the late 1960s...
Bummer, the small-disappointment word, traces back to German bummler, a loafer or drifter. English soon had bum in a similar sense, and its negative associations later attached to phrases such as bum deal, bum rap, and bum trip. By the late 1960s...
