dhrum
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From standard drum.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Mid-Ulster) IPA(key): /d̪͆ɹɔ̈m/
Noun
[edit]dhrum (plural dhrums)
- (Mid-Ulster) drum
- 1852, Dinny Blake, The Sprig of Shillelah, page 299:
- In the noise of the dhrum dhrowning love's botheration.
- 1964, G. Brendan Adams, Ulster Dialects. An Introductory Symposium, page 2:
- (dhrum for drum)
- 1996, C.I. Macafee, Concise Ulster Dictionary, page xi:
- often have considerable aspiration and a rolled or flapped r sounding like dhrum, thractor