Meaning & use
Stumblebum
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A clumsy, incompetent, or bungling person.
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The critic dismissed the aging boxer as a washed-up stumblebum.
He felt like a stumblebum after tripping over the cables during his presentation.
A note on using this word
Stumblebum originated in early 20th-century American slang, originally describing a second-rate or floundering boxer.
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