rummish
verbEtymology Possibly related to Middle English rumien (“to roar”).
- 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:
- 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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- 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: