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
- 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 examples of usage of this term, see Citations:Rum-ville.

References

[Francis Grose] (1788), “Rum-ville”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed for S. Hooper, […], OCLC 3138643.
“Rum-ville” in Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, 1889–1890, page 185.
Farmer, John Stephen (1903) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 6, page 48

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