tum tum

(Turns towards me, opens his eyes and mouth, and hums the REPRISE somewhere down in his throat.) […] Friend No. 1 (stopping in his tum tum tum). What's he say?

The toombah, a drum with tin jingles and shells, accompanied songs and dances of Africans on Antigua. A report in 1844 mentions the “tum tum” (toombah) and […]