stymie
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Noun — A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952).
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Etymology
From the meaning in golf (where the stymie ball blocks the other ball from "seeing" the hole), perhaps from Scots stymie, stimie (“person with poor eyesight”), from Scots stime (“the least bit”). Or from Scots styme (“tiny bit, glimmer”) as in se nocht ane styme (“not to see a glimmer (of something)”). If so, it is a d...
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