Meaning of callithumpian | Babel Free

Definitions

Of, relating to, or resembling a callithump; riotous.

US, colloquial, dated

Examples

“callithumpian band”

“callithumpian procession”

“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; […]”

“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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