Meanings
rumbo1
- archaicuncountableA type of punch made chiefly from rum; grog.First known use 18th c.
Will you have a can of flip, or a jorum of hot rumbo?
1824 June, [Walter Scott], Redgauntlet, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC1 more example
Your worship would have seen him before now; for, when he is well, he and my good master Hatchway come hither every evening, and drink a couple of canns of rumbo apiece […].
1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
Rumbo2
Origin
rumbo · noun
Arbitrary extension of rum; or perhaps compare rumbullion.
Full word history & related roots →Rumbo · proper noun
- GalicianRumbo
- EnglishRumbo
Borrowed from Galician Rumbo, a habitational surname.
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Cite this entry
rumbo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rumbo
“rumbo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rumbo. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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