rumbustion

词形变化

rumbustions 复数

别名

rombostion

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Synonym of rum, an alcoholic beverage distilled from sugarcane, similar spirits.

    可数 废旧 不可数

    ... 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.

词源

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

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