stumer

• But what makes this Storm a stumer, little more than a worthless tchotchke, is that not satisfied with introducing a white elephant of an input system, RIM has decided it should take its stand in the marketplace without WiFi.
• In London, and on racecourses, they would call the whole thing a "stumer". —  Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
• He had been going to commit suicide, because he was assured that everybody would regard him as one of the meanest of creatures, a forger and passer of a "stumer" cheque; but suddenly, at the tragical moment, an angel, in the guise of a young girl, had appeared, snatched the revolver from his hand, and saved him by just telling him that she believed him innocent It seemed to him that this guardian angel of his was hovering about him still; that it was incumbent upon him to carry out his pact with her, and to escape the fate that had threatened him, and, indeed, threatened him still. —  The Woman's Way
• cf. Slang (still in common use) 'stumer', a generic term for anything worthless, especially a worthless cheque p. 176 Grisons_. —  The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III

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