rum
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable)A spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses.
... I went aboard the Fellowship of 100 and 70 Tuns a Flemish bottom, the Master George Luxon of Bittiford in Devonshire, several of my friends came to bid me farewell, among the rest Captain Thomas Wannerton who drank to me a pint of kill-devil alias Rhum at a draught ...
That the former orders concerning rum, sugar, and hammocks be still in force, viz., one half to be forfeited to the King, and one half to the informer.
The Royal Navy used to issue a rum ration to sailors.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)(inexact) A similar spirit distilled from similar preparations of sugarbeets, sorghum, etc.
- 3.
(countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)A strange person or thing.
- 4.
(countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)A country parson.
- 5.
(British, colloquial, dated)Any odd person or thing.
- 6.
(rare)The card game rummy.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(obsolete)Fine, excellent, valuable.
having a rum time
- 2.
(UK, dated, informal)Strange, peculiar.
a rum idea; a rum fellow
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In common use since at least 1654, of uncertain origin. Theories include: * that it is a shortening of rumbullion or rumbustion, names for rum also attested in the Caribbean during the mid-17th century, * that it derives from rummer, from Dutch roemer, * that it is from a - word for "strong, potent" which is (perhaps) the source of ramboozle and rumfustian (however, these drinks were not originall…