callithumpとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈkæ.lɪ.θʌmp/

名詞

callithump (plural callithumps)

1. (US, colloquial, dated) A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns and other discordant noises.
   • 1919, Albert Bigelow Paine, Dwellers in Arcady: The Story of an Abandoned Farm‎:

     You probably don't know what callithump is, but you will find out if you undertake to hoe sod-ground potatoes in July. It has something to do with brazen trumpets and violence. I became acquainted with callithump when I straightened out the asparagus-bed.

2. (US, colloquial, dated) A burlesque serenade; a charivari.

派生語

• callithumpian

参照

• “callithump”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.