bummage

An especially unpleasant or disappointing situation or outcome. I just found out that I got an F on my test. Total bummage, dude. You can't talk nonstop about your divorce at a party, OK? Leave that bummage at the door. You guys lost the game in overtime? Ugh, bummage.

bummer

1. noun Someone or something that is unpleasant. This rain is a real bummer—will the sun ever come out again? Stop being such a bummer! You can't talk nonstop about your divorce at a party, OK? Quit being a bummer, dude.

2. noun An unpleasant experience induced by drugs. No, I don't take that stuff anymore—last time was a real bummer. I don't know why, but every time I take psychedelics anymore, it's a bummer. I'm kind of worried about Tommy because he had such a bummer after taking that drug.

3. adjective Describing someone or something unpleasant. Oh, it was a bummer party—you didn't miss anything. If Adam's already feeling down, you guys should watch a comedy, not that bummer movie! Ah, we lost in overtime, so it ended up being a bummer game.

bummage

n. despair. (As in bummed (out).) I got a load of bummage today. I’ll get over it.

bummer

1. and bum trip n. a bad drug experience. (Drugs.) She almost didn’t get back from a bum trip. I had a real bummer on that stuff. I may quit yet.

2. n. a disagreeable thing or person. The game was a bummer you wouldn’t believe.

3. mod. disappointing; unpleasant. I had a real bummer day.

bummer

An unsuccessful, unpleasant, or tedious experience; a failure. At first used to describe a bum trip, a frightening narcotic experience, it was quickly transferred to other kinds of experience. Both rely on the sense of bum meaning “bad,” a usage dating from the late 1800s (see bum steer). For example, “That ball game was a bummer; not only did it rain but we lost.”

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