thrumming
thrumming is the present participle and gerund of thrum.
Meaning of thrum
Verb (1)
thrum (third-person singular simple present thrums, present participle thrumming, simple past and past participle thrummed)
- To cause a steady rhythmic vibration in (something), usually by plucking.
- She watched as he thrummed the guitar strings absently.
- To make a monotonous drumming noise.
- to thrum on a table
Verb (2)
thrum (third-person singular simple present thrums, present participle thrumming, simple past and past participle thrummed)
- To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
- are we born to thrum caps or pick straw?1644-1646, Francis Quarles, Boanerges and Barnabas—Wine and Oyle for […] afflicted Soules
- To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.
- to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface
Noun
thrumming (plural thrummings)
- The sound or action of something that thrums.
- Those unfortunate and well-educated women made themselves heard from the neighbouring drawing-room, where they were thrumming away, with hard fingers, an elaborate music-piece on the piano-forte, as their mother spoke; and indeed, they were at music, or at backboard, or at geography, or at history...1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 20, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
- The harp itself was a huge gourd, and a most unmusical "shell" it proved to be. It had three strings, the thrummings of which disquieted me on two accounts[…]1870, The African Repository and Colonial Journal, volume 46, page 231
Forms of thrumming
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Words formed from thrumming
Questions about thrumming
- What does thrumming mean?
- Thrumming means the sound or action of something that thrums.
- What is thrumming the present participle and gerund of?
- Thrumming is the present participle and gerund of thrum.
- What part of speech is thrumming?
- Thrumming is a noun.
- What is the plural of thrumming?
- The plural of thrumming is thrummings.
Words near thrumming in the dictionary
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