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English
Etymology
From callithump + -ian.
Adjective
callithumpian (comparative more callithumpian, superlative most callithumpian)
- (US, colloquial, dated) Of, relating to, or resembling a callithump; riotous.
callithumpian band
callithumpian procession
1865 March, “Doctor Johns”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 15, number 89: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; […]
1918, William Allen White, The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me, page 66: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.
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