单词 | tamasha |
释义 | tamashan. East India. 1. An entertainment, show, display, public function. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > large or public event > [noun] fête1422 feast1485 triumphc1503 triumphal1605 vitulation1607 tamasha1623 set-out1818 hui1858 1623 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1622–3 (1908) 274 Nothing done more then a tomashaw. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 90 They stop at the meanest thing, to do that which they call Tamacha, (that's to say,) to consider and admire it.] 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 159 Two Englishmen were come to the Tomasia or Sight. 1864 G. O. Trevelyan Competition Wallah v. 125 He had invited all the English residents to a grand tumasha at his camp. 1872 Mrs. Valentine Let. in Mem. (1882) viii. 135 The usual tamashas went on. 1888 United Presbyterian Mission. Rec. Sept. 293 They had appointed pioneers to discover what the tomasha was to be. 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 May 7/1 The people say to the Christian missionaries: ‘Yours is a very dull religion; there is not enough tamasha (that is, show or function) about it’. 1892 Sat. Rev. 18 June 700/2 That very funny tamasha which is called a Convention in American politics. 1904 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 835 I thought the tamasha had begun and turned out to look. 1906 Athenæum 26 May 635/1 The serious business of life..at..Khapallu..seems to be polo and tamashas. 2. transferred. A fuss, a commotion. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > briskness or activeness > bustle or fuss to-doc1330 adoc1380 great (also much) cry and little woolc1460 feery-fary1535 fray1568 stirc1595 do1598 coil1599 hurl1603 ruffle1609 clutterment1611 buzz1628 bustle1637 paddle1642 racket1644 clutter1652 tracas1656 tracasserie1656 circumference1667 flutter1667 hurly-burly1678 fuss1701 fissle1719 fraise1725 hurry-scurry1753 fix-fax1768 fal-lal1775 widdle1789 touse1792 fuffle1801 going-on1817 hurry and scurry1823 sputter1823 tew1825 Bob's-a-dying1829 fidge1832 tamasha1842 mulling1845 mussing1846 fettling1847 fooster1847 trade1854 scrimmage1855 carry-on1861 fuss-and-feathers1866 on-carry1870 make-a-do1880 miration1883 razzle-dazzle1885 song and dance1885 to get a rustle on1891 tea-party1903 stirabout1905 whoop-de-do1910 chichi1928 production1941 go-go1966 1842 T. De Quincey Philos. Herodotus in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 9/2 Then began the great tumult of nations—the termashaw, to speak Bengalicé. 1882 F. M. Crawford Mr. Isaacs x. 213 Mr. Ghyrkins..wanted to know ‘what the deuce all this tamāsha was about’. 1923 R. Kipling Land & Sea Tales 226 Why is there this tamasha (fuss)? 1964 A. Swinson Six Minutes to Sunset ii. 24 Stewart..asked ‘What's all the tamasha about?’ 1981 S. Rushdie Midnight's Children i. 30 Enough of this tamasha! No more of this..tomfoolery! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1623 |
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