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English Dictionary: rumänische Westkarpaten by the DICT Development Group
4 results for rumänische Westkarpaten
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rum
adj
  1. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior"
    Synonym(s): curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular
n
  1. liquor distilled from fermented molasses
  2. a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
    Synonym(s): rummy, rum
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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]:
   Rum \Rum\, n.
      A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson. [Slang,
      Obs.] --Swift.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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