slummingn.
/ˈslʌmɪŋ/ 1. slang. (See quots.)
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1839 H. Brandon Dict. Flash or Cant Lang. in W. A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity & Crime 165/1 Slumming, passing bad money.
1888 C. T. Jacobi 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.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > visiting for philanthropic purposes
visitingc1374
visitationc1430
slumming1884
1884 Christian World 22 May 391/3 I am not one of those who have taken to ‘slumming’ as an amusement.
1894 D. C. Murray Making of Novelist 87 Slumming had not become the fashion at that time of day.
b. attributive, as slumming expedition, slumming party.
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1884 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 1 Oct. 2/3 The slumming party engaged in conversation audibly.
1888 Catholic Press 18 Aug. 272/3 The Isle of Dogs has recently been the scene of some new slumming expeditions for the ladies.
c. figurative with defining adjective Cf. slum v. 4b.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > [noun] > stooping to something unworthy > accepting inferior standards
mobbing1760
slumming1933
1933 D. Thomas Let. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 70 Few understand the works of Cummings, And few James Joyce's mental slummings.
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Jan. 30/3 Mr Amis's attitudes as a writer are not so demotic as his choice of terms seems to pretend. There is a suggestion of linguistic slumming, tweedy slanginess.
1977 M. Drabble Ice Age i. 35 She accused Anthony of hypocrisy, of intellectual slumming, of folie de grandeur, of brain fever.
Derivatives
ˈslumming adj.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [adjective] > visiting for philanthropic purposes
slumming1884
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Mar. 6 One of my recently acquired slumming friends.
1892 Tablet 30 July 171 Sir Rufus..is an admirable foil to a slumming Marquis.
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