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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Rum \Rum\, n. A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson. [Slang, Obs.] --Swift. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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. | |
