thrum.
A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
Meaning & usage
A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
A spicy taste; a tang.
Where this word comes from
Imitative.
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
Where this word comes from
Imitative.
The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
A fringe made of such threads.
Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English thrum, throm (> Anglo-French trome), from Old English *þrum (found in tungeþrum (“ligament of the tongue”)) from Proto-Germanic *þrumą. Cognate with German Trumm, Trümmer and Old Norse þrǫmr (“edge, brim”), and more distantly to Latin termen.
Made of or woven from thrum.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English thrum, throm (> Anglo-French trome), from Old English *þrum (found in tungeþrum (“ligament of the tongue”)) from Proto-Germanic *þrumą. Cognate with German Trumm, Trümmer and Old Norse þrǫmr (“edge, brim”), and more distantly to Latin termen.
To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English thrum, throm (> Anglo-French trome), from Old English *þrum (found in tungeþrum (“ligament of the tongue”)) from Proto-Germanic *þrumą. Cognate with German Trumm, Trümmer and Old Norse þrǫmr (“edge, brim”), and more distantly to Latin termen.
A threepenny bit.
Where this word comes from
Apparently a reduced form of the stem of threepenny/threepence through a sequence such as /ˈθrɛp(ə)n-/ > /ˈθrʊp(ə)m-/ > /ˈθrʊm-/ (> /ˈθɹʌm-/).
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