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Aug. 24, 2016
thrummy\THRUHM-ee\adjective
1. of or abounding in thrums; shaggy or tufted.
QuotesThey stood Englishly around a bandy-legged Scot with a thrummy
beard.
-- Guy Davenport, "A Field of Snow on a Slope of the Rosenberg," Da
Vinci's Bicycle, 1979
Origin of thrummyThrummy is formed from the noun thrum meaning "one
of the ends of the warp threads in a loom, left unwoven and remaining
attached to the loom when the web is cut off." It entered English in
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