rumbustion

English

Alternative forms

  • rombostion

Etymology

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

Noun

rumbustion (countable and uncountable, plural rumbustions)

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of rum, an alcoholic beverage distilled from sugarcane, similar spirits.
    • 1652, Mercurius Politicus, No. 90, p. 1435:
      ... 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 ...
    • 2001, Barb Bancroft, An Apple a Day..., p. 194:
      Both rumbullion and rumbustion, two early dialect names, may have referred to the violence that the drink was said to cause.

Derived terms

  • rum (uncertain)
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