thrum
A thrumming sound; a hum or vibrationA thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
Meaning
12 sensesA thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
a thrumming sound
(figuratively)A spicy taste; a tang.
The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
(in the plural)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.
(in the plural)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.
(obsolete, slang)A threepenny bit.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
From Middle English thrum, throm (> Anglo-French trome), from Old English *þrum (found iFrom 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.
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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