rumbullion

English

Noun

rumbullion (countable and uncountable, plural rumbullions)

1. (obsolete) Rum, the spirit.
2. (archaic, colloquial) A great tumult.
   • A. E. Coppard

     […] Rufus got hold of a gun and fired it off up chimney, and down come the soot, bushels of it! All over the room, and a chimney-pot burst and rattled down the tiles into a prambulator. What a rumbullion.

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989