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slumming, vbl. n.|ˈslʌmɪŋ|
[f. slum v.1]
1. slang. (See quots.)
1839Slang Dict. 34 Slumming, passing bad money. 1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 127 Slumming, a slang term used to describe the secreting of type or sorts.
2. a. The visitation of slums, esp. for charitable or philanthropic purposes.
1884Chr. World 22 May 391/3, I am not one of those who have taken to ‘slumming’ as an amusement. 1894D. C. Murray Making of Novelist 87 Slumming had not become the fashion at that time of day.
b. attrib., as slumming expedition, slumming party.
1884Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 1 Oct. 2/3 The slumming party engaged in conversation audibly. 1888Cath. Press 18 Aug. 272/3 The Isle of Dogs has recently been the scene of some new slumming expeditions for the ladies.
c. fig. with defining adj. Cf. sense 4 b of the vb.
1933Dylan Thomas Let. (1966) 70 Few understand the works of Cummings, And few James Joyce's mental slummings. 1958[see demotic a. 2]. 1977M. Drabble Ice Age i. 35 She accused Anthony of hypocrisy, of intellectual slumming, of folie de grandeur, of brain fever.
So ˈslumming ppl. a.
1884Pall Mall G. 17 Mar. 6 One of my recently acquired slumming friends. 1892Tablet 30 July 171 Sir Rufus..is an admirable foil to a slumming Marquis. |