rumbo
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See also: Rumbo
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Arbitrary extension of rum; or perhaps compare rumbullion.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ʌmbəʊ
Noun[edit]
rumbo (uncountable)
- (now rare, archaic) A type of punch made chiefly from rum; grog. [from 18th c.]
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
- Your worship would have seen him before now; for, when he is well, he and my good master Hatchway come hither every evening, and drink a couple of canns of rumbo apiece […] .
- 1824 June, [Walter Scott], Redgauntlet, […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
- Will you have a can of flip, or a jorum of hot rumbo?
Anagrams[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Latin rhombus (“rhombus”), based on the use of a rhombus to indicate directions on a map; it forms a doublet with rombo.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rumbo m (plural rumbos)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “rumbo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Rhymes:English/ʌmbəʊ
- Rhymes:English/ʌmbəʊ/2 syllables
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- Rhymes:Spanish/umbo
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