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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Rum-ville en · PROPN

Etymology

From rum (“good, fine, excellent”) + -ville (“town, city”).

Meanings

  1. (UK, archaic, qualifier:thieves' cant) London, England.
    • "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. 1861, Lady Esther Hope, The Blue Dwarf, page 21:

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