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callithumpian

callithumpian adjective: of, relating to, or resembling a callithump; riotous.

Adjective

callithumpian (comparative more callithumpian, superlative most callithumpian)

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

callithumpian meaning in Bengali

callithumpian in Bengali

কোলাহলপূর্ণ, উচ্ছৃঙ্খল

Examples of callithumpian in a sentence

  • 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:

Forms of callithumpian

comparativemore callithumpian
superlativemost callithumpian
alternative formcalathumpian

Origin of callithumpian

From callithump + -ian.

Questions about callithumpian

What does callithumpian mean?
Callithumpian means of, relating to, or resembling a callithump; riotous.
What is callithumpian in Bengali?
Callithumpian in Bengali is কোলাহলপূর্ণ, উচ্ছৃঙ্খল. See Callithumpian meaning in Bengali.
How do you use callithumpian in a sentence?
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; […]
What part of speech is callithumpian?
Callithumpian is an adjective.

Words near callithumpian in the dictionary

  1. callithamnioid
  2. callithamnioids
  3. callithrices
  4. callithrix
  5. callithump
  6. callithumpian
  7. callithumps
  8. callitriche
  9. callitriches
  10. callitrichid
  11. callitrichids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: callithumpian (page history and authors); callithumpian (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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