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rum

1  [ruhm]
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–noun
1. an alcoholic liquor or spirit distilled from molasses or some other fermented sugar-cane product.
2. alcoholic drink in general; intoxicating liquor: He warned against the demon rum.
Origin:
1645–55; perh. short for obs. rumbullion, rumbustion, of obscure orig.

Related forms:
rumless, adjective

rum

2  [ruhm]
–adjective Chiefly British.
1. odd, strange, or queer: a rum fellow.
2. problematic; difficult.
Origin:
1765–75; earlier rome, room great, perh. < Romany; see Rom

rum

3  [ruhm]
–noun Cards.
rummy 1 .
Origin:
by shortening

Rum

  [room]
–noun
Arabic name of Rome, once used to designate the Byzantine Empire.

Rum.

 
1. Romania.
2. Also, Rum Romanian.

rum⋅my

1  [ruhm-ee]
–noun
any of various card games for two, three, or four players, each usually being dealt seven, nine, or ten cards, in which the object is to match cards into sets and sequences.
Also called rum.

Origin:
1905–10, Americanism; perh. special use of rummy 3
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rum 1   (rŭm)   
n.  

  1. An alcoholic liquor distilled from fermented molasses or sugar cane.

  2. Intoxicating beverages.


[Probably short for obsolete rumbullion.]
rum 2   (rŭm)   
adj.   rum·mer, rum·mest Chiefly British

  1. Odd; strange.

  2. Presenting danger or difficulty.


[Origin unknown.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
rummy [ˈrəmi]

  1. n.
    a drunkard; an alcoholic; an alcoholic hobo. : Ask that rummy to leave before he throws up.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

rum  (n.)
"liquor from sugar cane or molasses," 1654, originally rumbullion (1651), rombostion (1652), of uncertain origin, perhaps from rum (adj.).
"The chiefe fudling they make in the Island [i.e. Barbados] is Rumbullion alias Kill-Devill, and this is made of suggar cane distilled, a hott, hellish and terrible liquor." [1651]
The Eng. word was borrowed into Du., Ger., Sw., Dan., Sp., Port., It., Fr., and Rus. Used since 1800 in N.Amer. as a general (hostile) name for intoxicating liquors. Rum-runner "smuggler or transporter of illicit liquor" is from 1920.

rum  (adj.)
"excellent," 1567, from rome "fine" (1567), said to be from Romany rom "male, husband" (see Romany). A very common 16c. cant word, by 1774 it had come to mean "odd, strange, bad, spurious," perhaps because it had been so often used approvingly by rogues in ref. to one another. This was the main sense after c.1800.

rummy 
card game, 1910, rhummy, of unknown origin. Gin rummy is first attested 1941. Meaning "drunkard" is 1851, from rum. Meaning "opponent of temperance" in U.S. politics is from 1860.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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