zamzummimhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zamzummim_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_useZamzummim, n.
First published 1921; not fully revised

Zamzummimnoun

  1. 1530–
    A name of ‘a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims’ (Deuteronomy ii. 21); used allusively or figuratively
    1. 1530
      That also was taken for a londe of geauntes and geauntes dwelt therin in olde tyme, and the Ammonites called them Zamzumyms.
      Bible (Tyndale) Deuteronomy ii. f. iiiiv
    2. 1531
      Haue they not compelled the emperoures of the erth..to be their tormentoures, and the samsumims them selves do but imagen mischefe and inspire them.
      W. Tyndale, Answere Mores Dialoge f. iiij
    3. 1628
      Aiax, Caligula, and the rest of those great Zanzummins, or giganticall Anakims.
      R. Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (ed. 3) ii.iii.ii. 290
    4. a1649
      Such Numbers of arm'd Enemies, so many Nimrods, Zanzummims, Adversaries to our Opinions.
      W. Drummond, Skiamachia in Works (1711) 201
    5. 1660
      Those two great Zanzummines of Church and State, the Arch-bishop of Canterbury, and the Earl of Strafford.
      England's Monarchy Asserted 9

Zamzummim, n. was first published in 1921; not fully revised.

Zamzummim, n. was last modified in June 2025.