单词 | rum-tum |
释义 | rum-tumint.n. 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 oliprancec1390 ragerya1393 vague1523 rex1566 friskin1570 gambol1573 reak1573 prank1576 vagary1588 whirligig1589 caper1592 prinkum-prankum1596 firk1611 frolica1635 carryings-on1663 ramp1696 romp1713 freak1724 scheme1758 rig1782 lark1811 escapade1814 gammock1819 gambade1821 enfantillage1827 game1828 shines1830 rollick1834 rusty1835 high jinksa1845 escapado1849 shenanigan1855 rum-tum1876 panta1901 gas1914 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.’ ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > light or racing boat1829 torpid1838 wager-boat1844 skiff1845 slogger1852 whiff1859 gig1865 best boat1866 shell1867 ship1878 sculling four1885 rum-tum1891 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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