单词 | tummler |
释义 | tummlern. Originally and chiefly U.S. (originally in Jewish usage). A person who amuses others with light-hearted jokes or clownish humour; a comic entertainer; esp. one employed at a hotel, holiday resort, etc., to entertain or amuse guests, or to direct and encourage their participation in activities.Often used specifically in reference to the comic entertainers employed by hotels and holiday resorts in the Catskill Mountains, New York State, esp. from the 1920s to the 1970s, to entertain their predominately Jewish clientele (see borscht belt n.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performance of jester or comedian > [noun] > jester or comedian jugglerc1175 foolc1300 jangler1303 fool sagec1330 ribald1340 ape-ward1362 japer1377 sage fool1377 harlotc1390 disporter?a1475 jocular?a1475 joculatora1500 jester?1518 idiot1526 scoffer1530 sporter1531 dizzardc1540 vice1552 antic1564 bauble-bearer1568 scoggin1579 buffoon1584 pleasant1595 zany1596 baladine1599 clown1600 fiddle1600 mimic1601 ape-carrier1615 mime1616 mime-man1631 merry man1648 tomfool1650 pickle-herring1656 badine1670 puddingc1675 merry-andrew1677 mimical1688 Tom Tram1688 Monaghan1689 pickled herring1711 ethologist1727 court-foola1797 Tom1817 mimer1819 fun-maker1835 funny man1839 mimester1846 comic1857 comedian1860 jokesman1882 comique1886 Joey1896 tummler1938 alternative comedian1981 Andrew- 1938 A. J. Liebling in New Yorker 26 Feb. 29/3 He's a real tummler, that Hymie. 1966 J. Adams & H. Tobias Borscht Belt iv. 41 If Mrs. Rappaport complained about not getting her third portion of blueberries or Mrs. Davidoff was scrounging fruitlessly for a dancing partner..it was the Toomler to the rescue. 1970 L. M. Feinsilver Taste of Yiddish iii. 345 Danny Kaye and other entertainers got their starts as tumelers in the Catskills. 1996 N.Y. Times 3 Mar. (Sophisticated Traveler Mag.) 70/3 There were no steel bands or midnight pig-outs on the Caledonian Star... Instead of entertainers, social directors and tummlers, we had experts who lectured on birds, archeology, social history, zoology, geology. 2004 Smithsonian Apr. 82/1 The Pythons were college boys, which distinguished them..from the long comic tradition of streetwise tummler who rose up from vaudeville and nightclubs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1938 |
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