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humhum Hist.
Also 7 hammome, hummum, 8 hump-hump.
[Origin obscure.]
A coarse Indian cotton cloth.
1620in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 193 Of sahannes and hammomes thiere are but fewe at presant in towne. 1687London Gaz. No. 2269/2, 4172 pieces of Hummums. 1695J. F. Merch. Wareho. laid Open 22, I shall begin with a Callico called Hummums. 1745in J. F. Watson Ann. Philad. (1830) 179 Quilted humhums, turkettees, grassetts, [etc.]. 1801in C. Cist Cincinnati in 1841 (1841) 179 Among other goods..hum⁓hums. 1809P. Freneau Poems I. 31 Hum-hums are here—and muslins—what you please. 1820Massachusetts Spy 5 Jan. (Th.), The bleach rotted linen..or the sleazy humhum. 1894A. M. Earle Costume Colonial Times 142 Hum-hum, a plain coarse-meshed Indian fabric made of cotton, much advertised in the middle of the [18th] century. We read of ‘blue Hum-hums’ and ‘Hump-humps for Sacks’ for sale in various Boston newspapers, from 1750 to 1770. 1952Brewer's Dict. Phr. & Fable (rev. ed.) 477/1 Humhum (U.S.A.), a thin cambric material. |