humdrumadj.n.

/ˈhʌmˈdrʌm/

Forms: Also 1500s humtrum.

Etymology: Found c1550: apparently a reduplicating formation < hum v.¹; it is doubtful whether the second element had any distinct connection with drum n.¹

A. adj.

1. Lacking variety; of a routine character; commonplace; monotonous; dull.

ΘΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > lacking variety

humdrum1553

humdrumming1698

humdrummish1731

monotonous1774

samely1799

jog-trot1826

jog-jog1837

jog-trotty1853

same1891

clock-punching1920

monotone1926

samey1929

ho-hum1969

rumdum1973

1553 tr. S. Gardiner De Vera Obediencia: Oration D vj Because I rather vse a newe makinge of distinccion, than þ^e old accustumed Humtrum distinccion.

1702 J. Vanbrugh False Friend ii, in Wks. (1840) 400/2 A very hum-drum marriage this.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 9. ¶6 The Hum-Drum Club..was made up of very honest Gentlemen, of peaceable Dispositions, that used to sit together, smoak their Pipes, and say nothing 'till Mid-night.

1782 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2012) V. 236 We had rather a hum drum evening.

1823 W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) II. 158 I am writing in a sad, humdrum vein.

1864 J. H. Newman Apologia Note C. (1873) 313 A plain humdrum Sermon.

†2. (adj. or adv.) Without decision or distinction; undecided. Obsolete.

ΘΠ

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [adjective]

twiredec888

orrathc1175

twofoldc1175

twifoldc1200

waveringc1315

uncertain1382

suspensec1440

mammeringa1450

flowing?1504

floghtering1521

vacillant1521

in a mammering1532

double-minded1552

unstaid1561

unresolute1570

unresolved?1571

staggeringa1577

frittle1579

irresolute1579

cheverel1583

off and on1583

halting1585

unsettleda1593

unresolving1599

demurring1607

waving1611

suspensive1614

hoveringa1616

startling1619

irresolved1621

hesitating1622

indetermined1628

variousa1643

branling1645

hesitant1647

non-sincere1656

hesitatious1657

humdrum1660

shuttlecock1660

yea-and-nay1672

swaying1688

interpendent1708

undetermined1718

Squadronec1720

hesitatorya1734

volanta1734

shilly-shally1734

dilly-dally1749

niffy-naffy1765

wiggle-waggle1778

undecided1779

undecisive1780

indecisive1787

conflicted1789

hesitative1795

undeciding1802

vacillating1814

yea-nay1827

demurrant1836

willy-nilly1839

shilly-shallying1842

oscillative1852

Hamletish1854

vacillatory1854

dilly-dallying1879

thistledown1897

weak-principled1913

not-quite1920

off-again on-again1923

dithery1931

havering1975

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [adverb]

in a waver1519

uncertainly1555

waveringlya1603

irresolutely1617

unresolvedly1621

off and ona1641

hesitantly1660

humdrum1660

irresolvedly1680

undecisively1771

hesitatingly1800

on or upon the waver1806

indecisively1828

vacillatinglya1849

oscillatively1852

hesitatively1881

shakenly1890

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > [adjective] > decided, determined > not

unjudged1563

humdrum1660

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adverb]

indifferentlyc1374

indistinctlyc1420

confusedly?1531

undistinctly1548

confusely?c1550

without respect?c1550

without choice1576

intermixedlya1586

unrespectively1586

pell-mell1587

promiscuously1593

mixedly1597

indiscriminate1598

promiscually1602

swoopstake1603

promiscuous1616

irrespectively1624

muddily1648

indiscriminately1652

humdrum1660

indiscriminally1665

undistinguishingly1665

indeterminatelya1676

indiscriminatively1684

indistinguishably1689

indiscretely1698

indistinctively1699

undiscerningly1707

uncritically1763

indiscriminatingly1824

undiscriminatingly1894

unfastidiously1929

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 132 in Justice Vindicated He..divides Jus into Jus naturale, and voluntarium; which may signifie either of them, or both together hum drum.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 171 Shall we (quoth she) stand still hum drum, And see stout Bruin all alone By numbers basely overthrown?

1710 Brit. Apollo 7–9 Aug. Your Wiser Rival..Ne'er stood Hum Drum, with Shilly Shally.

B. n.

1. A humdrum person; a dull, monotonous, commonplace fellow.

ΘΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull person > lacking variety

humdrum1601

1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor i. i. sig. B^v I scorne it I, so I doe, to bee a consort for euerie hum-drum .

1710 Brit. Apollo 25–28 Aug. A Plodding Hum-Drum, A Schollar that's Grum.

1812 Religionism 59 Heed not the lazy beneficed hum-drums.

1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross I. xviii. 294 There are none but hum-drums, and jog-trots.

a. Dullness, commonplaceness, monotony; dull monotonous talk; with a and plural, A humdrum saying, conversation, debate, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull talk

humdrum1727

slack-jaw1797

slack lip1899

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > lacking variety

monotony1706

uniformity1707

humdrum1727

sameness1743

monotonousness1807

humdrummishness1830

humdrummery1831

flatness1884

humdrumminess1886

sameliness1897

sameyness1977

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > dullness

humdrum1727

woodenness1854

pedestrianism1858

monotone1871

blue-bookiness1909

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > dullness > dull writing or discourse

prose1688

prosing1762

humdrum1840

1727 Art Speaking in Publick 71 Still in the same key to the tune of humdrum without either division or variety.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. xxxiv. 179 I am frequently forced to go to my harpsichord..and..silence his humdrum.

1840 F. Trollope Widow Married III. xxiii. 12 To stand listening for an hour together to mama's humdrums.

1854 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 62 I have been to hear a debate, or a hum-drum, in the House of Lords.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. ii. 22 She was living with some intensity and escaping humdrum.

†b. in plural. Dullness; = doldrum n. 2. Obsolete.

ΘΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > fit of

gloominga1400

dumpa1535

mubble fubbles1589

mulligrubs1599

mumps1599

mood1609

blues1741

mopes1742

gloom1744

humdrums1757

dismals1764

horror1768

mournfuls1794

doldrum1811

doleful1822

glumps1825

jim-jams1896

katzenjammer1897

the sniffles1903

mopery1907

joes1916

woofits1918

cafard1924

jimmies1928

the blahs1969

downer1970

1757 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances I. xcvi. 172 I fear my Epistle will..give you the Hum-drums.

Derivatives

humˈdrummery n.

ΘΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > lacking variety

monotony1706

uniformity1707

humdrum1727

sameness1743

monotonousness1807

humdrummishness1830

humdrummery1831

flatness1884

humdrumminess1886

sameliness1897

sameyness1977

1831 Fraser's Mag. 4 52 The deity still that illumed my humdrummery, My Magnus Apollo was Robert Montgomery.

humˈdrumminess n. (also humˈdrumness) the quality or state of being humdrum; humdrum action.

ΘΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > lacking variety

monotony1706

uniformity1707

humdrum1727

sameness1743

monotonousness1807

humdrummishness1830

humdrummery1831

flatness1884

humdrumminess1886

sameliness1897

sameyness1977

1886 Daily Tel. 23 Apr. 2/3 A sort of humdrumness that seemed to steal into the ship's inner life.

1889 Spectator 9 Nov. 626/2 Plain men, of..fair capacities, and an unsurpassable humdrumminess of nature and deportment.

1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs II. 72 To break out of orthodox humdrumness.

humˈdrummish adj. characterized by humdrum, monotony, or dullness.

ΘΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > lacking variety

humdrum1553

humdrumming1698

humdrummish1731

monotonous1774

samely1799

jog-trot1826

jog-jog1837

jog-trotty1853

same1891

clock-punching1920

monotone1926

samey1929

ho-hum1969

rumdum1973

1731 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) I. 385 Their two eldest daughters are beauties..but not entertaining, so we passed that day hum-drumish.

humˈdrummishness n.

ΘΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > lacking variety

monotony1706

uniformity1707

humdrum1727

sameness1743

monotonousness1807

humdrummishness1830

humdrummery1831

flatness1884

humdrumminess1886

sameliness1897

sameyness1977

1830 Blackwood's Mag. 27 414 His ‘discretion and taste’..mean humdrumishness and humbug.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

humdrumv.

Etymology: < humdrum n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˌhumˈdrum.

intransitive. To proceed in a humdrum, monotonous, or undecided fashion. Also to humdrum it.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > be or become wearied or bored [verb (intransitive)] > proceed in monotonous manner

humdrum1733

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)]

haltc825

flecchec1300

waverc1315

flickerc1325

wag1387

swervea1400

floghter1521

stacker1526

to be of (occasionally in) many (also divers) minds1530

wave1532

stagger1533

to hang in the wind1536

to waver as, like, with the wind1548

mammer1554

sway1563

dodge1568

erch1584

suspend1585

float1598

swag1608

hoverc1620

hesitate1623

vacillate1623

fluctuate1634

demur1641

balance1656

to be at shall I, shall I (not)1674

to stand shall I, shall I1674

to go shill-I shall-I1700

to stand at shilly-shally1700

to act, to keep (upon), the volanta1734

whiffle1737

dilly-dally1740

to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.)1751

oscillate1771

shilly-shally1782

dacker1817

librate1822

humdrum1825

swing1833

(to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1848

to back and fill1854

haver1866

wobble1867

shaffle1873

dicker1879

to be on the weigh-scales1886

waffle1894

to think twice1898

to teeter on the brink1902

dither1908

vagulate1918

pern1920

1733 J. Swift Let. to Sheridan 27 Mar. I humdrum it on..endeavouring to write, but write nothing, merely out of indolence and want of spirits.

1825 T. L. Peacock Wks. (1875) III. 223 If you stand hum-drumming [etc.].

1862 J. L. Motley Let. Dec. in Corr. (1889) II. iii. 108 We are humdrumming on as usual.

1894 A. d'Heristal Discord. Life xii. 99 I cannot humdrum with him in the Darby and Joan style.

Derivatives

humˈdrumming adj. monotonous, commonplace.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > lacking variety

humdrum1553

humdrumming1698

humdrummish1731

monotonous1774

samely1799

jog-trot1826

jog-jog1837

jog-trotty1853

same1891

clock-punching1920

monotone1926

samey1929

ho-hum1969

rumdum1973

1698 F. B. Free but Modest Censure 14 He is none of those hum~drumming Authors.

1894 F. S. Ellis Reynard the Fox 189 To the humdrumming round, Wherein most men are bound, He furnishes pleasant variety.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	humdrum
释义	humdrumadj.n. /ˈhʌmˈdrʌm/ Forms: Also 1500s humtrum. Etymology: Found c1550: apparently a reduplicating formation < hum v.¹; it is doubtful whether the second element had any distinct connection with drum n.¹ A. adj. 1. Lacking variety; of a routine character; commonplace; monotonous; dull. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > lacking variety humdrum1553 humdrumming1698 humdrummish1731 monotonous1774 samely1799 jog-trot1826 jog-jog1837 jog-trotty1853 same1891 clock-punching1920 monotone1926 samey1929 ho-hum1969 rumdum1973 1553 tr. S. Gardiner De Vera Obediencia: Oration D vj Because I rather vse a newe makinge of distinccion, than þ^e old accustumed Humtrum distinccion. 1702 J. Vanbrugh False Friend ii, in Wks. (1840) 400/2 A very hum-drum marriage this. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 9. ¶6 The Hum-Drum Club..was made up of very honest Gentlemen, of peaceable Dispositions, that used to sit together, smoak their Pipes, and say nothing 'till Mid-night. 1782 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2012) V. 236 We had rather a hum drum evening. 1823 W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) II. 158 I am writing in a sad, humdrum vein. 1864 J. H. Newman Apologia Note C. (1873) 313 A plain humdrum Sermon. †2. (adj. or adv.) Without decision or distinction; undecided. Obsolete. ΘΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [adjective] twiredec888 orrathc1175 twofoldc1175 twifoldc1200 waveringc1315 uncertain1382 suspensec1440 mammeringa1450 flowing?1504 floghtering1521 vacillant1521 in a mammering1532 double-minded1552 unstaid1561 unresolute1570 unresolved?1571 staggeringa1577 frittle1579 irresolute1579 cheverel1583 off and on1583 halting1585 unsettleda1593 unresolving1599 demurring1607 waving1611 suspensive1614 hoveringa1616 startling1619 irresolved1621 hesitating1622 indetermined1628 variousa1643 branling1645 hesitant1647 non-sincere1656 hesitatious1657 humdrum1660 shuttlecock1660 yea-and-nay1672 swaying1688 interpendent1708 undetermined1718 Squadronec1720 hesitatorya1734 volanta1734 shilly-shally1734 dilly-dally1749 niffy-naffy1765 wiggle-waggle1778 undecided1779 undecisive1780 indecisive1787 conflicted1789 hesitative1795 undeciding1802 vacillating1814 yea-nay1827 demurrant1836 willy-nilly1839 shilly-shallying1842 oscillative1852 Hamletish1854 vacillatory1854 dilly-dallying1879 thistledown1897 weak-principled1913 not-quite1920 off-again on-again1923 dithery1931 havering1975 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [adverb] in a waver1519 uncertainly1555 waveringlya1603 irresolutely1617 unresolvedly1621 off and ona1641 hesitantly1660 humdrum1660 irresolvedly1680 undecisively1771 hesitatingly1800 on or upon the waver1806 indecisively1828 vacillatinglya1849 oscillatively1852 hesitatively1881 shakenly1890 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > [adjective] > decided, determined > not unjudged1563 humdrum1660 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adverb] indifferentlyc1374 indistinctlyc1420 confusedly?1531 undistinctly1548 confusely?c1550 without respect?c1550 without choice1576 intermixedlya1586 unrespectively1586 pell-mell1587 promiscuously1593 mixedly1597 indiscriminate1598 promiscually1602 swoopstake1603 promiscuous1616 irrespectively1624 muddily1648 indiscriminately1652 humdrum1660 indiscriminally1665 undistinguishingly1665 indeterminatelya1676 indiscriminatively1684 indistinguishably1689 indiscretely1698 indistinctively1699 undiscerningly1707 uncritically1763 indiscriminatingly1824 undiscriminatingly1894 unfastidiously1929 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 132 in Justice Vindicated He..divides Jus into Jus naturale, and voluntarium; which may signifie either of them, or both together hum drum. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 171 Shall we (quoth she) stand still hum drum, And see stout Bruin all alone By numbers basely overthrown? 1710 Brit. Apollo 7–9 Aug. Your Wiser Rival..Ne'er stood Hum Drum, with Shilly Shally. B. n. 1. A humdrum person; a dull, monotonous, commonplace fellow. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull person > lacking variety humdrum1601 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor i. i. sig. B^v I scorne it I, so I doe, to bee a consort for euerie hum-drum . View more context for this quotation 1710 Brit. Apollo 25–28 Aug. A Plodding Hum-Drum, A Schollar that's Grum. 1812 Religionism 59 Heed not the lazy beneficed hum-drums. 1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross I. xviii. 294 There are none but hum-drums, and jog-trots. 2. a. Dullness, commonplaceness, monotony; dull monotonous talk; with a and plural, A humdrum saying, conversation, debate, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull talk humdrum1727 slack-jaw1797 slack lip1899 the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > lacking variety monotony1706 uniformity1707 humdrum1727 sameness1743 monotonousness1807 humdrummishness1830 humdrummery1831 flatness1884 humdrumminess1886 sameliness1897 sameyness1977 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > dullness humdrum1727 woodenness1854 pedestrianism1858 monotone1871 blue-bookiness1909 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > dullness > dull writing or discourse prose1688 prosing1762 humdrum1840 1727 Art Speaking in Publick 71 Still in the same key to the tune of humdrum without either division or variety. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. xxxiv. 179 I am frequently forced to go to my harpsichord..and..silence his humdrum. 1840 F. Trollope Widow Married III. xxiii. 12 To stand listening for an hour together to mama's humdrums. 1854 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 62 I have been to hear a debate, or a hum-drum, in the House of Lords. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. ii. 22 She was living with some intensity and escaping humdrum. †b. in plural. Dullness; = doldrum n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > fit of gloominga1400 dumpa1535 mubble fubbles1589 mulligrubs1599 mumps1599 mood1609 blues1741 mopes1742 gloom1744 humdrums1757 dismals1764 horror1768 mournfuls1794 doldrum1811 doleful1822 glumps1825 jim-jams1896 katzenjammer1897 the sniffles1903 mopery1907 joes1916 woofits1918 cafard1924 jimmies1928 the blahs1969 downer1970 1757 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances I. xcvi. 172 I fear my Epistle will..give you the Hum-drums. Derivatives humˈdrummery n. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > lacking variety monotony1706 uniformity1707 humdrum1727 sameness1743 monotonousness1807 humdrummishness1830 humdrummery1831 flatness1884 humdrumminess1886 sameliness1897 sameyness1977 1831 Fraser's Mag. 4 52 The deity still that illumed my humdrummery, My Magnus Apollo was Robert Montgomery. humˈdrumminess n. (also humˈdrumness) the quality or state of being humdrum; humdrum action. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > lacking variety monotony1706 uniformity1707 humdrum1727 sameness1743 monotonousness1807 humdrummishness1830 humdrummery1831 flatness1884 humdrumminess1886 sameliness1897 sameyness1977 1886 Daily Tel. 23 Apr. 2/3 A sort of humdrumness that seemed to steal into the ship's inner life. 1889 Spectator 9 Nov. 626/2 Plain men, of..fair capacities, and an unsurpassable humdrumminess of nature and deportment. 1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs II. 72 To break out of orthodox humdrumness. humˈdrummish adj. characterized by humdrum, monotony, or dullness. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > lacking variety humdrum1553 humdrumming1698 humdrummish1731 monotonous1774 samely1799 jog-trot1826 jog-jog1837 jog-trotty1853 same1891 clock-punching1920 monotone1926 samey1929 ho-hum1969 rumdum1973 1731 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) I. 385 Their two eldest daughters are beauties..but not entertaining, so we passed that day hum-drumish. humˈdrummishness n. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > lacking variety monotony1706 uniformity1707 humdrum1727 sameness1743 monotonousness1807 humdrummishness1830 humdrummery1831 flatness1884 humdrumminess1886 sameliness1897 sameyness1977 1830 Blackwood's Mag. 27 414 His ‘discretion and taste’..mean humdrumishness and humbug. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020). humdrumv. Etymology: < humdrum n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˌhumˈdrum. intransitive. To proceed in a humdrum, monotonous, or undecided fashion. Also to humdrum it. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > be or become wearied or bored [verb (intransitive)] > proceed in monotonous manner humdrum1733 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] haltc825 flecchec1300 waverc1315 flickerc1325 wag1387 swervea1400 floghter1521 stacker1526 to be of (occasionally in) many (also divers) minds1530 wave1532 stagger1533 to hang in the wind1536 to waver as, like, with the wind1548 mammer1554 sway1563 dodge1568 erch1584 suspend1585 float1598 swag1608 hoverc1620 hesitate1623 vacillate1623 fluctuate1634 demur1641 balance1656 to be at shall I, shall I (not)1674 to stand shall I, shall I1674 to go shill-I shall-I1700 to stand at shilly-shally1700 to act, to keep (upon), the volanta1734 whiffle1737 dilly-dally1740 to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.)1751 oscillate1771 shilly-shally1782 dacker1817 librate1822 humdrum1825 swing1833 (to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1848 to back and fill1854 haver1866 wobble1867 shaffle1873 dicker1879 to be on the weigh-scales1886 waffle1894 to think twice1898 to teeter on the brink1902 dither1908 vagulate1918 pern1920 1733 J. Swift Let. to Sheridan 27 Mar. I humdrum it on..endeavouring to write, but write nothing, merely out of indolence and want of spirits. 1825 T. L. Peacock Wks. (1875) III. 223 If you stand hum-drumming [etc.]. 1862 J. L. Motley Let. Dec. in Corr. (1889) II. iii. 108 We are humdrumming on as usual. 1894 A. d'Heristal Discord. Life xii. 99 I cannot humdrum with him in the Darby and Joan style. Derivatives humˈdrumming adj. monotonous, commonplace. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > lacking variety humdrum1553 humdrumming1698 humdrummish1731 monotonous1774 samely1799 jog-trot1826 jog-jog1837 jog-trotty1853 same1891 clock-punching1920 monotone1926 samey1929 ho-hum1969 rumdum1973 1698 F. B. Free but Modest Censure 14 He is none of those hum~drumming Authors. 1894 F. S. Ellis Reynard the Fox 189 To the humdrumming round, Wherein most men are bound, He furnishes pleasant variety. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adj.n.1553v.1698
随便看	lie forth lie full low lie group lie hard lie heavy lie heavy at or to one's heart lie heavy on one's stomach lie heavy upon lie heavy, cold, etc formerly on the stomach lie heavy, cold, etc on the stomach lie heavy, cold, etc simply to lie on the stomach lie hull lie in lie in ambush lie in common lie in grant lie in great wait lie in grip lie in hand to do lie in imbibition lie in leaguer lie in lure lie in one's hands lie in one's power lie in one's throat