callithumpian

adj

callithumpian

adj

Etymology From callithump + -ian.

1

US, Colloquial, Dated Of, relating to, or resembling a callithump; riotous.

  • callithumpian band
  • callithumpian procession
2 more examples
  • 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; […]1865 March, “Doctor Johns”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 15, number 89:
  • 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.1918, William Allen White, The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me, page 66:

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