2016-10-17

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2016-10-17 07:54 am

thrummy

thrummy (THRUM-ee) - adj., covered or edged with thrums.


Which is not very useful unless you know that a thrum is an unwoven end of a warp thread or a fringe of such ends, and by extension any short loose thread. So, having a shaggy (or sometime downy) edge or surface. This sense dates to Middle English, descended from Old English thrum meaning ligament (esp. of the tongue), of Germanic origin.

No, I don't remember where I stumbled upon this.

---L.