NOUN
- a noisy boisterous parade
- a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple
How To Use callithump In A Sentence
- Hardly anybody now alive is old enough ever to have seen and heard that boisterous old callithump known as a "dyke," which was famous enough once upon a time. In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.
- Cabarets, bean-counting contests, lotteries and callithumpian methods generally marked a period in Canada's recruiting history not pleasant to review, and which brought discredit upon the entire voluntary enlistment system as a permanent method of filling up armies. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
- I have the greatest respect for honorable toil, but even more for callithump. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm
- I realized presently that my special forte lay in directing a sizable garden like that rather than in performing the actual labor, especially when June arrived and the sun began to approach the perpendicular and take on callithump. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm
- I became acquainted with callithump when I straightened out the asparagus-bed. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm
- He had been entertaining a regular callithumpian parade of Red Cross commissioners from America, and he probably felt that he had seen the worst and that this was just another cross. The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me
- You probably don't know what callithump is, but you will find out if you undertake to hoe sod-ground potatoes in July. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm
- By the time I had pulled half-way down one row I could feel the callithump working. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm
