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单词 tamasha
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tamashan.

/təˈmɑːʃə/
Forms: Also †termashaw, †tomasha, tomashaw, tomasia, †tumasha
Etymology: < Arabic, Persian, Urdu tamāʃā walking about for recreation or amusement, an entertainment, < 6th conj. of maʃa(y) to walk.
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).
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