rumbullion
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rumbullion¹
Where it comes from
Uncertain. The forms rhum and rumbustion appear around the same time.
noun rumbullions · rum-bullion · rombullion · rumbullian
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Synonym of rum, an alcoholic beverage distilled from sugarcane, similar spirits.
...the chiefe fudling they make in the Island is Rumbullion, alias Kill-Devill, and this is made of suggar canes distilled, a hott, hellish and terrible liquor.
Similar: rum
rumbullion²
Where it comes from
From French Rambouillet, a town between Paris and Chartres in France. Doublet of Rambouillet.
noun rumbullions · rumbillion · rombullion
- A kind of peach.
- A kind of gooseberry.
rumbullion³
Where it comes from
Uncertain but probably related to rumbustious (“unruly”), itself likely a variant of robustious (“robust, large, noisy, violent”), from robust + -ious, q.v.
noun rumbullions
- A great tumult. When Jim brought the bride home from church that Rufus got hold of a gun and fired it off up chimney, and down come the soot, bushels of it! All over the room, and a chimney-pot burst and rattled down the tiles into a prambulator. What a rumbullion that was!
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title = {rumbullion},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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