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Rom-vile

Rom-vile is the alternative spelling of Rum-ville.

Meaning of Rum-ville

Proper noun

Rum-ville

  1. (UK, archaic, thieves' cant) London, England.
    • "And said if we'd meet him at the boozing-ken with the dell and kinchin co, he'd carry them off to Rum-ville," continued the first speaker.1861, Lady Esther Hope, The Blue Dwarf, page 21

Questions about Rom-vile

What is Rom-vile the alternative spelling of?
Rom-vile is the alternative spelling of Rum-ville.

Words near Rom-vile in the dictionary

  1. rom com
  2. rom coms
  3. rom-com
  4. rom-commy
  5. rom-coms
  6. Rom-vile
  7. rom-zom-com
  8. rom-zom-coms
  9. Rom.
  10. roma
  11. Roma locuta est, causa finita est

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Rom-vile (page history and authors); Rum-ville (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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