bedrum

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Pronunciation

/biˈdɹʌm/

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/biˈdɹʌm/ · /bəˈdɹʌm/

Definition of bedrum

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

(transitive)To drum about, over, or in celebration for (something).

“As the wedding company proceeded to the church, with the town-band bedrumming and becymballing them in the van, she whimpered and sobbed as in the evil hour when the Job's-news reached her, that the wild sea had devoured her husband, with ship and fortune.”
“[They] thrust themselves, with the utmost of their soul and strength, to the highest, by them attainable, pinnacle of the most bedrummed and betrumpeted booth in the Fair of the World.”
“This bedrummed and betrumpeted man of genius cannot read the A B a b of the human emotions.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From be- (“about, over”) + drum.

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