[f. STRUM v.] The action of strumming or playing noisily and monotonously on a musical instrument.
c. 1793. Burns, Epist. Esopus, 51. Who christened thus Maria’s lyre divine The idiot strum of vanity bemused…?
1840. Marryat, Olla Podr., III. 143. There were four young ladies who were learning music. We now had our annoyance: it was strum, strum, all day long.
1845. Eliza Cook, Poems, Ser. II. Poem of Househ., iii. There’s more mirth in the jig and the amateur’s strum, When the parchment-spread battledore serves as a drum.
