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rumti-
(also rum-ti-, rumty-; rumpti-, rumpty-, rump-te-),
a meaningless combination of syllables used in refrains or imitations of sounds. Also, used in comb. with adjs.; rumti-too adj., commonplace.
(a)1820Scott Let. 30 Nov. in Lockhart (1845) 442/1 The Rumti-iddity chorus in Tom Thumb. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 738/1 Luckily, Old Sparks hadn't christened him with any of his ridiculous rumfoozles, or rumptyiddities. 1848Dickens Dombey ii, The..unmeaning and unfeeling remark of rump-te-iddity, bow-wow-wow.
(b)1817Keats Let. 15 Apr. (1958) I. 129, I hope one of you will be competent to take part in a Trio..when you have said Rum-ti-ti you must not rum any more. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge xviii, The tabor was fiercely beaten, rumpti, tumpti. 1897Star 20 Apr. 3/4 The music..is of the commonplace rum-ti-tum order. 1898G. B. Shaw Perfect Wagnerite 109 A little rum-ti-tum triplet. 1901Pall Mall Mag. Feb. 265 If you were to put in a little less rumty-tumty language, I'm not sure that I shouldn't agree with you. 1912World 7 May 690/2 Mr. Cyril Maude makes a rather rumtifootling bishop amusing and forgivable even in his most flagrant lapses from clerical circumspection. 1974Listener 31 Jan. 131/1 Try translating Goethe's Faust with the same metre..it's apt to sound fatally rum-ti-tum. 1976G. Ewart No Fool i. 31 This is a convention, we know, of course, and a wistfulness in the rum-ti-tum might be detected.
(c)1906Galsworthy Man of Property i. i. 22 Did you ever see such a collection of rumty-too people? 1920― In Chancery i. i. 9 He was feeling more strongly than ever that Timothy's was hopelessly ‘rum-ti-too’, and the souls of his aunts dismally mid-Victorian. |