Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
slumming en · NOUN
Meanings
-
(countable, uncountable) A period of associating with people or engaging in activities with a status below one's own.
Few understand the works of Cummings,
And few James Joyce's mental slummings,
And few young Auden's coded chatter;
But then it is the few that matter.
1933, Dylan Thomas, From a Letter to my Aunt, Discussing the Correct Approach to Modern Poetry:Sir Arthur Sullivan, genius of the comic-opera is — by a curious paradox of fate — remembered on the centenary of his birth by those very scores which he considered his musical slummings […]
1942, Opera News, volume 7, page 26:
Forms
slumming en · VERB
Meanings
-
(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of slum