Rum-ville
English
Alternative forms
- Rom-vile, Rome-vile, Rome-ville, Romeville, Rome-vyle, Rome vyle, Rum File, Rum-vile, Rum ville, Rum-vill, Rumville
Etymology
rum (“good, fine, excellent”) + -ville (“town, city”)
Proper noun
Rum-ville
- (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) London, England.
- 1861, Hope, Lady Esther, The Blue Dwarf, page 21:
- "And said if we'd meet him at the boozing-ken with the dell and kinchin co, he'd carry them off to Rum-ville," continued the first speaker.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Rum-ville.
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References
- [Francis Grose] (1788), “Romeville”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: […] S. Hooper, […], OCLC 1179630700.
- Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890), “Rum-ville”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, OCLC 882571771, page 185.
- Farmer, John Stephen (1903) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 6, page 48