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thrum¹
- /θɹʌm/ UK
- /θɹʌm/ US
Rhymes with -ʌm
Where it comes from
Imitative.
noun thrums
- A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration. a profusion of insects, which produced a continuous thrum
- A spicy taste; a tang. The trailblazing Oaxacan chef Alejandro Ruiz […] has spiked this black-bean sauce with a hidden depth charge of flavor: patches of foliage from a local avocado tree. The leaves electrify the sauce with an unexpected thrum of black licorice.
verb thrums · thrumming · thrummed
- To cause a steady rhythmic vibration in (something), usually by plucking. She watched as he thrummed the guitar strings absently.
- To make a monotonous drumming noise. to thrum on a table
thrum²
- /θɹʌm/ UK
- /θɹʌm/ US
Rhymes with -ʌm
Where it comes from
From Middle English thrum, throm (> Anglo-French trome), from Old English *þrum (found in tungeþrum (“ligament of the tongue”)) from Proto-Germanic *þrumą. Cognate with German Trumm, Trümmer and Old Norse þrǫmr (“edge, brim”), and more distantly to Latin termen.
noun thrums · thrumb
- The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut. The twister is given a harness filled with thrums or short ends of the old warp which has been returned from the looms. These thrums of silk are all that remain of the last warps.
- A fringe made of such threads.
- Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
- A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
- A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
- A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
- Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
- A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
- A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
adjective thrumb
- Made of or woven from thrum. In Paris, there are scarce two orders of beings more different: for the legislative and executive powers of the shop not resting in the husband, he seldom comes there:—in some dark and dismal room behind, he sits commerce-less, in his thrum nightcap, the same rough son of Nature that Nature left him
verb thrums · thrumming · thrummed · thrumb
- To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe. 1644-1646, Francis Quarles, Boanerges and Barnabas—Wine and Oyle for […] afflicted Soules are we born to thrum caps or pick straw?
- To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in. to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface
thrum³
- /θɹʌm/ UK
- /θɹʌm/ US
Rhymes with -ʌm
Where it comes from
Apparently a reduced form of the stem of threepenny/threepence through a sequence such as /ˈθrɛp(ə)n-/ > /ˈθrʊp(ə)m-/ > /ˈθrʊm-/ (> /ˈθɹʌm-/).
noun thrums
- A threepenny bit.
