bedrum

See also: bedrům

English

Etymology

From be- (“about, over”) ‎ drum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biˈdɹʌm/, /bəˈdɹʌm/

Verb

bedrum (third-person singular simple present bedrums, present participle bedrumming, simple past and past participle bedrummed)

1. (transitive) To drum about, over, or in celebration for (something).
   • 1874, Thomas Carlyle, Works: Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter:

     As the wedding company proceeded to the church, with the town-band bedrumming and becymballing them in the van, she whimpered and sobbed as in the evil hour when the Job's-news reached her, that the wild sea had devoured her husband, with ship and fortune.

   • 1875, John Ruskin, “Letter LVIII”, in Fors Clavigera. Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, volume V, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, page 272:

     [They] thrust themselves, with the utmost of their soul and strength, to the highest, by them attainable, pinnacle of the most bedrummed and betrumpeted booth in the Fair of the World.

   • 1897, The Canadian Magazine:

     This bedrummed and betrumpeted man of genius cannot read the A B a b of the human emotions.

Anagrams

• bumder, dumber