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Definition of Strummer
1. one that strums [n -S] - See also: strums
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strummer
Literary usage of Strummer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punchby Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"SCALE on, scale on, oh! tuneless strummer, Rum - turn - ti - tiddy- iddy - turn
I You 've thumped and ..."
2. "Marse Henry": An Autobiography by Henry Watterson (1919)
"... creator of a country's only native songs has invariably here at home been
apologized for as a sort of 'cornfield musician,' a mere banjo strummer, ..."
3. American Poets and Their Theology by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1916)
"... thinks what furs will best become her, And on the stage-boards shouts the
gibing mummer. Shut in by storms, the dull piano-strummer Murders old tunes. ..."
4. American Poets and Their Theology by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1916)
"... thinks what furs will best become her, And on the stage-boards shouts the
gibing mummer. Shut in by storms, the dull piano-strummer Murders old tunes. ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1892)
"And one step below success, to be laughed at or softly pitied as the dreamer of
ineffectual dreams, the strummer of impotent music; to be despised alike by ..."
6. The English Review (1849)
"... forcing the chords into endless combinations, DOW and then a happy musical
idea can scarcely fail to flit across the air; small praise to the strummer! ..."
7. Retrospections of America, 1797-1811 by John Bernard, Laurence Hutton, Brander Matthews (1886)
"... I have done you a favor in listening so long to your fiddle-de-dee, and
suffering a wretched strummer of catgut to converse with a tragedian of the ..."
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