Now rare. Forms: 6 tyntamar, 7 tintamare, -marr, tintimare, -marre, (tinamar), 7–8 tintamar, (9 -mara, -merre, tintimar), 7– tintamarre. [a. F. tintamarre (15th c.), of obscure origin: see suggestion in Littré.] A confused noise, uproar, clamor, racket, hubbub, clatter.
1567. Fenton, Trag. Disc., 418. I leave you to judge what a tyntamar entred the head of therle.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, III. xiii. 644. Hee learnd and profited much by that hurly burly or tintimare.
1640. Howell, Dodona’s Gr., 64. He preservd Ampelona … without the least tintamarre or noise of commotion.
1705. Vanbrugh, Confed., V. ii. But amongst all this tintamar, I don’t hear a word of my hundred pounds.
1806–7. J. Beresford, Miseries Hum. Life, Post. Groans, xxiii. During its intolerable, indomitable, and interminable tintamara.
1834. H. Greville, Diary, 21 Nov. (1883), 40. Such a tintamarre I never heard, but the audience were enthusiastic.
1901. Academy, 28 Dec., 635/1. The just … praise he wishes to utter is forestalled by a tintimar of rash eulogy.
