rummish

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌm.ɪʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʌmɪʃ

Etymology 1

From rum +‎ -ish.

Adjective

rummish (comparative more rummish, superlative most rummish)

1. (dated) Somewhat rum or peculiar; oddish.

Etymology 2

Possibly related to Middle English rumien (“to roar”).

Verb

rummish (third-person singular simple present rummishes, present participle rummishing, simple past and past participle rummished)

1. (obsolete, intransitive, uncommon) To roar; to bellow. [16–17th c.]
   • 16th c., David Lindsay, The Works of the Famous and Worthy Knight Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, alias Lyon, King of Arms, Edinburgh, published 1720, page 134:

     Great Whales ſhall rummiſh, rout and rair,
     Whoſe Sound redound ſhall in the Air,
     All Fiſh and Monſters marvellous,
     Shall cry with Sounds odious.

   • 1591, “The Fvries”, in His Maiesties Poetical Exerciſes at vacant houres‎^[1], Edinburgh:  […] Robert Walde-graue, lines 488-491:

     With brangle of lights doth bark, doth whiſle,
     And route doth euermore,
     Make murmuring, loudlie howle and bray,
     And rummiſh faſt and rore.

   • 1597, chapter V, in Daemonologie, in forme of a Dialogue, Edinburgh:  […] Robert Walde-graue, page 48:

     And therefore as a valiant Captaine, affraies no more being at the combat, nor ſtayes from his purpoſe for the rummiſhing ſhot of a Cannon, nor the ſmall clack of a Piſtolet : […]