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English
- Rom-vile, Rome-vile, Rome-ville, Romeville, Rome-vyle, Rome vyle, Rum File, Rum-vile, Rum ville, Rum-vill, Rumville
Etymology
From rum (“good, fine, excellent”) + -ville (“town, city”).
Proper noun
Rum-ville
- (archaic, British, thieves' cant) London, England.
1861, Lady Esther Hope, 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.
References
- [Francis Grose] (1788) “Romeville”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: S. Hooper, , →OCLC.
- 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, page 185.
- John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1903) “Rome-ville”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. , volume VI, Harrison and Sons] , →OCLC, page 48.