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rumbullion

noun

Etymology

Uncertain but probably related to rumbustious (“unruly”), itself likely a variant of robustious (“robust, large, noisy, violent”), from robust + -ious, q.v.

  1. borrowed from Rambouillet

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. A kind of peach.

  3. A kind of gooseberry.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A great tumult.

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