Rum-ville

English

Alternative forms

• Rom-vile, Rome-vile, Rome-ville, Romeville, Rome-vyle, Rome vyle, Rum File, Rum-vile, Rum ville, Rum-vill, Rumville

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Rum-ville

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

     "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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Rum-ville.

References

• [Francis Grose] (1788) “Romeville”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC.
• Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “Rum-ville”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 185.
• John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1903) “Rome-ville”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume VI, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 48.