callithumpian
(US, colloquial, dated) Of, relating to, or resembling a callithump; riotous.
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(US, colloquial, dated) Of, relating to, or resembling a callithump; riotous.
There was never a tutor's windows to be broken in, or a callithumpian frolic, (which were in vogue in those days,) but Maverick bore a hand in both;
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