rummish

comparative more rummish · superlative most rummish

1. datedSomewhat rum or peculiar; oddish.

present singular third person rummishes · participle present rummishing · participle past rummished · past rummished

1. intransitiveobsoleteuncommonTo roar; to bellow.First known use 16–17th c.

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

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

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

   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

   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 : […]

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