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stymie | Word of the Day
June 08, 2019
stymie
[
stahy
-mee]
verb
noun
1.
(on a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
2.
to hinder, block, or thwart.
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This kind of leader would have little to no incentive to work with the Board of Supervisors and could easily
stymie
much of the progress the county is making on critical problems.
-- Alice A. Huffman, "Sacramento's plan to expand the L.A. County Board of Supervisors has nothing to do with diversity,"
Los Angeles Times
, August 15, 2017
ORIGIN
The verb
stymie
has an obscure origin. It may be a golfing term, a noun referring to an opponent's ball that lies closer to the hole than one's own and is in the line of play, from which the slightly later verb sense in golf developed. By the beginning of the 20th century, the verb
stymie
had a generalized sense "to impede, hinder, thwart."
Stymie
may come from Scots
stymie
"a person with poor eyesight," a derivative of
stime
,
styme
"a glimmer, glimpse."
Stymie
in the sense of "a person with poor vision" entered English in the early 17th century, the golfing sense in the first half of the 19th century.
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