rough music

noun

Definitions

  1. Improvised noise created by banging saucepans, scrap metal etc., especially as a way for…

    Improvised noise created by banging saucepans, scrap metal etc., especially as a way for communities to express outrage or displeasure at someone's behaviour.

    • Seventeen villagers of Lincolnshire have been fined for ‘rantanning’ […] the ‘rough music’ of kettle and pan, in which the rustic moralist conveys his sense of outraged propriety.
    • Apart from making presentments in the Church courts, villagers had many informal ways of expressing their disapproval of the way a married couple comported themselves: by playing ‘rough music’ under their window, for example […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA