rumbullion

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Synonym of rum, an alcoholic beverage distilled from sugarcane, similar spirits. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — ...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. obsolete
  3. A great tumult. Devon,archaic,dialectal
    — 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!
  4. A kind of gooseberry. obsolete

词形变化

rumbullions plural rum-bullion alternative rombullion alternative rumbullian alternative rumbullions plural rumbillion alternative rombullion alternative rumbullions plural

词源

词源 1
Uncertain. The forms rhum and rumbustion appear around the same time.
词源 2
From French Rambouillet, a town between Paris and Chartres in France. Doublet of Rambouillet.
词源 3
Uncertain but probably related to rumbustious (“unruly”), itself likely a variant of robustious (“robust, large, noisy, violent”), from robust + -ious, q.v.
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