rumbustion
nounEtymology
Uncertain. The forms rhum and rumbullion appear around the same time.
Definitions
Synonym of rum, an alcoholic beverage distilled from sugarcane, similar spirits.
- ... Partly the Brandewin wherewith we have furnisht him, the spirits of Rombostion, which our men there make him, and other good hopes we give him, he becomes very valiant ...
- Both rumbullion and rumbustion, two early dialect names, may have referred to the violence that the drink was said to cause.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for rumbustion. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA