rumbullion
English
editNoun
editrumbullion (countable and uncountable, plural rumbullions)
- (obsolete) Rum, the spirit.
- (archaic, colloquial) A great tumult.
- A. E. Coppard
- […] 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.
- A. E. Coppard
References
edit- OED 2nd edition 1989