Definition of Humdrums

1. humdrum [n] - See also: humdrum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Humdrums

humbuged
humbugged
humbugger
humbuggeries
humbuggers
humbuggery
humbugging
humbuging
humbugs
humbuzz
humbuzzes
humdinger
humdingers
humdrum
humdrumness
humdrums (current term)
humect
humectant
humectants
humectate
humectated
humectates
humectating
humectation
humectations
humected
humecting
humective
humects
humefied

Literary usage of Humdrums

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Spectator (The)by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1836)
"... ma) est take a pi« telling thy dreams, the company will take cure in hearing them.' If I can once extirpate the race of solid •tantial humdrums, I hope, ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1886)
"... and they sneer at us and at all other religious men and women, and they flout the parish priests and call them humdrums, and schism is at work horribly, ..."

3. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1864)
"... or Midwife's Masterpiece, containing the most choice collection of humdrums and Driveller*. Ну Магу Midnight, with Notes ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"If that were ever to come to the ears of the Pounces and the humdrums, there would be a fine flare-up! But they cannot possibly penetrate the secrets of the ..."

5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1827)
"... to be named with the Birminghams; they are very common-place humdrums, while the others are certainly, though secondary stars, yet of great brilliancy. ..."

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