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▪ I. ˈrummish, a. slang.
[f. rum a.2]
Somewhat odd or peculiar; rather rummy.
1760Duchess of Northumberland Diary 17 Aug. (1926) 26 Ld Dumfries very drunk, talk'd of being frisky & rummish. 1826Sporting Mag. XVIII. 285 Galloping them round a corner, with a rummish team. 1837T. Hook Jack Brag xiv, ‘That's a rummish cut of a toggery,’ said Jack. 1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs, Milit. Snobs, His little box near Epsom..: where..many ‘rummish plants’ are concocted.
▪ II. † ˈrummish, v. Sc. Obs.
Forms: 6 rumb-, rummisch, rum(m)is, -ys, -e(i)s, 7 rumish.
[See romy v. Perhaps partly represented by later Sc. rumish, reemish (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).]
1. intr. To roar, bellow.
15..Clariodus i. 970 He rumbischit whill rared everie roch. 1513Douglas æneis iii. x. 17 The hird Poliphemus..Grassilland his teth, and rummesand full hie. Ibid. 36 How cavernis or furnys of Ethna round Rummist and lowit. 1552Lyndesay Monarche 5468 Gret Quhalis sall rummeis, rowte, and rair.
2. To protest loudly, make uproar.
1533Bellenden Livy iii. xiii. (S.T.S.) I. 299 Þan þe small pepill began to rummys. Ibid. iv. xviii. II. 118 Incontinent þe hale senate began to rummys.
Hence † ˈrummishing vbl. n. and ppl. a. Obs.
c1480Henryson Fables, Lion & Mouse xxx, [The lion] Welterand about with hiddious rummissing. 1533Bellenden Livy iv. xix. (S.T.S.) II. 121 Incontinent rais ane huge rummyssing throw all the tentis. 1653E. Chisenhale Cath. Hist. 144 The battering shot of the Rummishing Canon. |