Meanings
plural peanisms
- alternativeuncountableusuallyAlternative form of paeanism.
[…]the old song, transformed to a peanism, to the tune of Lillibulero.
1885 February 26, “English Kennel Notes”, in Forest and Stream, volume 24, number 5, page 932 more examples
"I am so tired of hearing about money! It is my brother Ernest's constant peanism; it is the chorus with which the world joins in.
1862, Frederick William Robinson, Grandmother's money, page 350There is no crudity here, no carnal implication, no vulgar song to Eros, rather a simple, and in a sense pure peanism to Love itself.
1932, Harold Vinal, editor, Voices, numbers 67-78 [exact issue unclear], page 37
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