callithumpian

English

Alternative forms

• calathumpian

Etymology

From callithump +‎ -ian.

Adjective

callithumpian (comparative more callithumpian, superlative most callithumpian)

1. (US, colloquial, dated) Of, relating to, or resembling a callithump; riotous.

   callithumpian band

   callithumpian procession

   • 1865 March, “Doctor Johns”, in The Atlantic Monthly‎^[1], 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^[2], 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.

References

• “callithumpian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.