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单词 rum-tum
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rum-tumint.n.

Brit. /ˈrʌmtʌm/, U.S. /ˈrəmˌtəm/
Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.
Etymology: Imitative of the sound of a drum roll. The semantic motivation of sense B. 3 is unclear; it may perhaps show a different word.
A. int.
Used to represent a regular rhythmic musical sound.
ΚΠ
1825 Lit. Magnet 3 43 Marlbrook to the wars is going, Rum tum tiddle-e, tum ti tum.
1927 I. Gershwin Acrobats in Compl. Lyrics (1993) 111/3 Oh, rum-tum tiddle-liddle um-tum-tum-tum, Rum-tum tiddle-liddle um-tum-tum-tum—Acrobats for mine.
1989 Music Educators Jrnl. 75 26/1 They began to play, ‘Rum tum tum,..rum rum teem tum tum’.
2003 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 24 Apr. d7 Rum tum tum, rum tum tum.Those seated in the circle could feel the beat of the drums.
B. n.
1. English regional. A prank, a light-hearted diversion. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun] > a frolic
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prinkum-prankum1596
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1876 R. D. Blackmore Cripps liv The Lord only knows what a fool I be, to carry on with such rum-tums now.
2. A regular rhythmic musical sound. Also attributive or as adj.In quot. 1879: a musical instrument which can produce this sound.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > regular or alternating rhythm
cadence1667
throb throb1857
clip-clop1863
chip-chop1876
rum-tum1879
pom-pom1892
throb1892
heartbeat1898
bounce1937
plip-plop1953
1879 W. G. Hamley House of Lys I. ix. 251 ‘I suppose you'll be at the rum-tum-ta’—and he imitated the motions of a person playing on the pianoforte.
1898 G. B. Shaw Perfect Wagnerite 139 The strings play a rum-tum accompaniment.
1917 G. B. Shaw in Nation 7 July 347/1 The accompaniments are a derisive rum-tum.
1958 Times 28 Nov. 8/4 The rum-tum bars in Malcolm Arnold's United Nations tone-poem.
1998 Boston Globe (Nexis) 28 Sept. c10 The sort of Traditional Old English rum-tum..that encores are made of.
3. Rowing. A clinker-built racing-boat for one or more scullers, with outriggers and sliding seat, used on the lower Thames. Occasionally attributive. N.E.D. (1910) notes: ‘First built and named at Putney about 1888. The rum-tum is shorter and broader than the gig, and was originally an open boat, but is now canvassed in fore and aft.’
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > light or racing
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Togger1891
1891 Lock-to-Lock Times 24 Oct. 6/2 May I ask why a new class of boat has sprung up, bearing the inelegant name of ‘Rum-Tum’? Why ‘Rum-Tum’?
1897 J. A. Lewis Every Boy's Bk. Sport & Pastime 201 A ‘rum-tum’: a light out-rigged boat for two pairs of sculls, a class of boat rather popular with boys who have attained some degree of rowing dexterity.
1898 A. Ansted Dict. Sea Terms Rum-tum race, a race among Thames rowing men in boats supplied to them by the clubs to which they belong... The practice of rum-tum racing has only been instituted within the last few years.
1939 Times 18 Mar. 4/1 A collision in the Thames..between his boat, a ‘rum-tum’, and an eight.
1955 J. Lehmann Whispering Gallery i. 26 A neat single-sculler, with outriggers but rather too heavy for racing, known as the rum-tum.
2008 Old Hamptonians' Chron. 158 7 in www.ohdb.co.uk (O.E.D. Archive) As an aside, [in c1958] I entered the newly established Weybridge Silver Sculls which I completed..in a very heavy clinker sculling boat delightfully called a rum-tum.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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