Definitions
hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
Word origin
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 doublet of stime.
Used in a sentence
“Mary, will you be mine? Shall we go round together? Will you fix up a match with me on the links of life which shall end only when the Grim Reaper lays us both a stymie?”
“They had lost the key, and the lock stymied the first three locksmiths they called.”
“If writing dates has you stymied at times, it is probably for one of two reasons. https://www.grammarly.com/blog/how-to-write-dates/”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Block progress”6 letters
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