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rumbullions

rumbullions is the plural of rumbullion.

Meaning of rumbullion

Noun (1)

rumbullion (countable and uncountable, plural rumbullions)

  1. (obsolete) 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
    Synonyms:
    rum

Noun (2)

rumbullion (plural rumbullions)

  1. (obsolete) A kind of peach.
  2. (obsolete) A kind of gooseberry.

Noun (3)

rumbullion (plural rumbullions)

  1. (Devon, archaic, dialectal) 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

Questions about rumbullions

What is rumbullions the plural of?
Rumbullions is the plural of rumbullion.

Words near rumbullions in the dictionary

  1. rumbowlines
  2. rumbud
  3. rumbuds
  4. Rumbula
  5. rumbullion
  6. rumbullions
  7. rumbumptious
  8. rumbunctious
  9. rumbunctiously
  10. rumbunctiousness
  11. rumbustical

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