»stumer

The inimitable Plum, P G Wodehouse has taught me many words (and many shades of meaning) in his delightful comic novels; re-reading a story included in the "Wodehouse Bestiary" anthology, I came upon stumer, "something which is worthless; a failure, a flop, a dud" describing a particular horse's outcome at Goodwood. The word comes from Cork slang, and also has a specific meaning of "counterfeit", but generally refers to a sham or failure. (Answers dot com generally labels the word as "British slang", which would infuriate any Corkonian I know.)