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noun
Synonym of rum, an alcoholic beverage distilled from sugarcane, similar spirits.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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Synonyms: rum
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noun
A kind of peach.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A kind of gooseberry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A great tumult.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Devon, archaic, dialectal
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History
Uncertain. The forms rhum and rumbustion appear around the same time.
From French Rambouillet, a town between Paris and Chartres in France. Doublet of Rambouillet.
Uncertain but probably related to rumbustious (“unruly”), itself likely a variant of robustious (“robust, large, noisy, violent”), from robust + -ious, q.v.
