callithump

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns and other discordant noises. US,colloquial,dated
    — You probably don't know what callithump is, but you will find out if you undertake to hoe sod-ground potatoes in July. It has something to do with brazen trumpets and violence. I became acquainted with callithump when I straightened out the asparagus-bed.
  2. A burlesque serenade; a charivari. US,colloquial,dated

词形变化

callithumps plural

词汇关系

衍生词
callithumpian

词源

Uncertain. Perhaps from calli- + thump, or an alteration and backformation from "Gallithumpian", a Dorset and Devon word from 1790s for a society of radical social reformers, in reference to "noisy disturbers of elections and meetings
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