rumfustiann.adj.
/rʌmˈfʌstɪən/, U.S. /ˌrəmˈfəstʃən/ Now historical.
A hot, spiced drink made of strong beer, white wine, gin, egg yolks, lemon juice, and sugar, popular during the 19th cent., originally among university students.In quot. 1824 as adj., with allusion to the effects of drinking rumfustian.
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1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 363 Shee..gave this lad all the roaring, rumfustian, upper-gallery, clap-trap, hullaballoows about liberty, emancipation, [etc.].
1827 R. Cook Oxf. Night Caps 24 Rumfustian... Such is the intoxicating property of this liquor, that none but hard drinkers will venture to regale themselves with it a second time.
1862 J. Thomas How to mix Drinks (N.Y.) 72 Rumfustian,..a drink very much in vogue with English sportsmen, after their return from a day's shooting.
1900 A. M. Earle Stage Coach & Tavern Days v. 101 Rumfustian was made of a quart of strong beer, a bottle of wine or sherry, half a pint of gin, the yolk of twelve eggs, orange peel, nutmeg, spices, and sugar.
1908 E. R. Emerson Beverages, Past & Present II. xv. 411 While rum shrub contains more than a third of rum, rumfustian should not have any if properly made, being a hot drink in which gin is the foundation.
1942 B. Field Bride of Glory ii. 19 ‘She'll be alright’, Ephraim reaffirmed, and added: ‘The “Crose Bulets” serve rumfustian on Fridays.’
2006 G. Nathan Hist. Taverns Boston 29 Rumfustian, rumbooze, and rambooze are all old English university drinks.
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1833 Fraser's Mag. 7 706 The round-about, hubble-bubble, rumfustianish,..roly-poly growlery of [Carlyle's] style, so Germanically set forth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1824