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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.]
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Rum

Rum\, n. [probably shortened from Prov. E. rumbullion a great tumult, formerly applied in the island of Barbadoes to an intoxicating liquor.] A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor.

Rum bud, a grog blossom. [Colloq.]

Rum shrub, a drink composed of rum, water, sugar, and lime juice or lemon juice, with some flavoring extract.

Rum

Rum\, a. [Formerly rome, a slang word for good; possibly of Gypsy origin; cf. Gypsy rom a husband, a gypsy.] Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow. [Slang] --Dickens.

Rum

Rum\, n. A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson. [Slang, Obs.] --Swift.
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Language Translation for : rum
Spanish: ron,
German: der Rum,
Japanese: ラム酒
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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