rumbustion

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

"... 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."

Uncertain. The forms rhum and rumbullion appear around the same time.

rumbustions (plural) rombostion (alternative)

rum

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