Ruggy, fusty, frowsy.
Rule. “To run the RULE over,” is, among thieves, to try all a person’s pockets quietly, as done by themselves, or to search any one thoroughly, as at the police-station.
Rule the roast, to be at the head of affairs, to be “cock of the walk.”
Rum, like its opposite, [QUEER], was formerly a much-used prefix, signifying fine, good, gallant, or valuable; perhaps in some way connected with Rome. Nowadays it means indifferent, bad, or questionable, and we often hear even persons in polite society use such a phrase as, “What a RUM fellow he is, to be sure,” in speaking of a man of singular habits or appearance. The term, from its frequent use, long since claimed a place in our dictionaries; but, with the exception of Johnson, who says RUM, a cant word for a clergyman(!), no lexicographer has deigned to notice it.
“Thus RUMLY floor’d, the kind Acestes ran,
And pitying, raised from earth the game old man.”
Rum cull, the manager of a theatre, generally the master of a travelling troop.
Rumbler, a four-wheeled cab. Not so common as [BOUNDER]. See [GROWLER].
Rumbowling, anything inferior or adulterated.—Sea.
Rumbumptious, haughty, pugilistic.
Rumbustious, or RUMBUSTICAL, pompous, haughty, boisterous, careless of the comfort of others.