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thrumming en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The sound or action of something that thrums.
   • Those unfortunate and well-educated women made themselves heard from the neighbouring drawing-room, where they were thrumming away, with hard fingers, an elaborate music-piece on the piano-forte, as their mother spoke; and indeed, they were at music, or at backboard, or at geography, or at history, the whole day long. 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 20, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
   • The harp itself was a huge gourd, and a most unmusical "shell" it proved to be. It had three strings, the thrummings of which disquieted me on two accounts[…] 1870, The African Repository and Colonial Journal, volume 46, page 231:

Forms

Deriveds

thrummingly

thrumming en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of thrum
   form of thrum