thrum

A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.

This doesn’t detract from the fun of bargaining at the variety of Hong Kong’s night markets (those who don’t like to haggle should stay away) that often thrum with shoppers till midnight. The best in town are the Ladies’ Market, for inexpensive women’s clothing, bags, and accessories, and the Temple Street Night Market, for an astonishing selection of everything from clothes and CDs to luggage and shoes—even fortune tellers—at the Yau Ma Tei end of the street.

a profusion of insects, which produced a continuous thrum

A spicy taste; a tang.

The trailblazing Oaxacan chef Alejandro Ruiz […] has spiked this black-bean sauce with a hidden depth charge of flavor: patches of foliage from a local avocado tree. The leaves electrify the sauce with an unexpected thrum of black licorice.

To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.

She watched as he thrummed the guitar strings absently.

To make a monotonous drumming noise.

to thrum on a table

They were hardly seated, and I had hardly waved good-by to Denver, before he was off, the big motor thrumming with immense birdlike power.

The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.

A fringe made of such threads.

Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.

A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.

A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.