rumbullionEtymologyUncertain. The forms rhum and rumbustion appear around the same time.nounSynonym of rum, an alcoholic beverage distilled from sugarcane, similar spirits.“...the chiefe fudling they make in the Island is Rumbullion, alias Kill-Devill, and this is made of suggar canes distilled, a hott, hellish and terrible liquor.”A kind of peach.A kind of gooseberry.A great tumult.“When Jim brought the bride home from church that Rufus got hold of a gun and fired it off up chimney, and down come the soot, bushels of it! All over the room, and a chimney-pot burst and rattled down the tiles into a prambulator. What a rumbullion that was!”