callithumpian
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
callithump + -ian
Adjective edit
callithumpian (comparative more callithumpian, superlative most callithumpian)
- (US) Of, relating to, or resembling a callithump; riotous.
- callithumpian band
- callithumpian procession
- 1865 March, “Doctor Johns”, in The Atlantic Monthly[1], volume 15, number 89:
- There was never a tutor's windows to be broken in, or a callithumpian frolic, (which were in vogue in those days,) but Maverick bore a hand in both; […]
- 1918, William Allen White, The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me[2], page 66:
- He had been entertaining a regular callithumpian parade of Red Cross commissioners from America, and he probably felt that he had seen the worst and that this was just another cross.
References edit
- “callithumpian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.