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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2013-01-02 07:35 am

rabblement

rabblement (RAB-uhl-muhnt) - n., a tumult, disturbance; a rabble, disorderly crowd.


No longer much in use, alas, but it's an old one: coined in the 1530s from rabble, which itself is of murky Middle English origin.

---L.