rumbullion
rumbullion noun: synonym of rum, an alcoholic beverage distilled from sugarcane, similar spirits.
Noun (1)
rumbullion (countable and uncountable, plural rumbullions)
- 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.c. 1651, "A Briefe Description of the Island of Barbados" in Trinity College MS G4, p. 15
- Now, if there be six Coppers, the first two are thinnest and biggest, in which the juyce is first boiled; but not by a very strong fire, for that will make the Scum to rise, by casting in Temper, as they call it: the first of which that ariseth is little worth; but afterwards, what is scum'd off...1672, William Hughes, The American Physitian..., pages 33-34
- Synonyms:
- rum
Noun (2)
rumbullion (plural rumbullions)
- A kind of peach.
- A kind of gooseberry.
Noun (3)
rumbullion (plural 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!1925 July, Alfred Edgar Coppard, “The Field of Mustard”, in The Dial, volume 79, page 52
Synonyms of rumbullion
Forms of rumbullion
| plural | rumbullions |
|---|---|
| alternative form | rum-bullion |
| alternative form | rombullion |
| alternative form | rumbullian |
| alternative form | rumbillion |
Origin of rumbullion
Uncertain. The forms rhum and rumbustion appear around the same time.
From French Rambouillet, a town between Paris and Chartres in France. Doublet of Rambouillet.
Uncertain but probably related to rumbustious (“unruly”), itself likely a variant of robustious (“robust, large, noisy, violent”), from robust + -ious, q.v.
Words formed from rumbullion
Questions about rumbullion
- What does rumbullion mean?
- Rumbullion means synonym of rum, an alcoholic beverage distilled from sugarcane, similar spirits.
- What part of speech is rumbullion?
- Rumbullion is a noun.
- What is the plural of rumbullion?
- The plural of rumbullion is rumbullions.
Words near rumbullion in the dictionary
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