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单词 tummler
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tummlern.

Brit. /ˈtʊmlə/, U.S. /ˈtʊmlər/
Forms: 1900s– toomeler, 1900s– toomler, 1900s– tumeler, 1900s– tumler, 1900s– tummeler, 1900s– tummler.
Origin: A borrowing from Yiddish. Etymon: Yiddish tumler.
Etymology: < Yiddish tumler < tumlen to make a noise, to create a racket ( < German tummeln (reflexive) to hurry, to make haste: see tumble v.) + -er -er suffix1.
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.).
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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).
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