1610 S. Rid Martin Mark-all sig. E3 Prat a Buttocke. Your prat whids Romely, you fart lustily.

1667 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue (rev. ed.) I. i. iv. 36 Most part of the night we spent in boozing, pecking rumly.

1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 29 We concluded to booz it rumly.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Rumly, bravely, cleaverly, delicately, &c.

1753 J. Poulter Discoveries 42 Wid rumley, speak well.

c1770 Humourist: Choice Coll. Songs 2/1 Come all you Buffers gay, That rumly do pad the City.

1796 Sporting Mag. 8 252/2 Gemmen, if you do not come it rumly, I shall be dish'd. Go it well, or I brush, and it will be all dicky with me!

1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 727 Touch'd with grief to see His pal..Thus rumly floor'd, the kind Acestes ran, And pitying rais'd from earth the game old man.

1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 5 Apr. (1972) 294 Well! something good may come of it and if it does it will be good luck for as you and I know, mother Duty, it has been a rumly written work.

1831 Metropolitan Aug. 374 In the days of Smollett, Jack himself was rather ‘rumly rigged’... No costume could be less adapted for a seaman's work.

1899 L. O. D. Chant Sellcuts' Manager xi. 173 There's a person waiting in the hall says she's Lady Margetson's niece. Looks rumly dressed.

1910 H. B. M. Watson Alise of Astra (1911) ix. 124 But, rumly enough, I bucked into a sort of Consul or Counsel, or something representing it, at Lady Waghorn's not long ago.

2001 D. Buckley Strange Fascination (rev. ed.) iv. 214 Two years earlier, Bowie had rumly told the press: ‘People like Lou Reed and I are probably predicting the end of an era.’