Strumstrum

Quick meaning: Strumstrum is a noun meaning (archaic, often derogatory) Any stringed musical instrument that is played with the fingertips, especially one considered to be foreign.

Meaning

(archaic, often derogatory) Any stringed musical instrument that is played with the fingertips, especially one considered to be foreign.

Example Sentences

Banjo Byron that twangs the strum-strum there—

They sent ashore for some Sing-Song girls, which, with the fellers that brought them, all night made the cabin thick with cigarettes and the stringing of a strum-strum.

[The orator’s] cry […] was a species of musick to the mob, as agreeable as the sound of a bagpipe to a mountaineer of North Britain, or the strum-strum to the swarthy natives of Angola.

1728, George Carleton (attributed to Daniel Defoe), The Memoirs of an English Officer, London: E. Symon, p. 279, Their Guitars, if not their Sole, are their darling Instruments, and what they most delight in: Tho’ in my Opinion our English Sailors are not much amiss in giving them the Title of Strum Strums.

Word Forms

• strumstrums
• strum-strum
• strum strum

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include strum, humstrum, stridulator, twang, undulation, fuzz.

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