Pronunciations (3)
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/ɹʌm/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ɹʊm/
Pronunciation notes
- Northern-England
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/ɾʌm/
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- Scotland
- Wales
Noun
A spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses.
Usage- Uncountable
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... 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.
— Why is rum gone? — One, because it is a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels!
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The Royal Navy used to issue a rum ration to sailors.
A spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses. A serving of rum.
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Jake tossed down three rums.
A spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses. A kind or brand of rum.
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Bundaberg is one of my favourite rums.
A similar spirit distilled from similar preparations of sugarbeets, sorghum, etc.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
A strange person or thing.
Usage- Countable
- Obsolete
- Slang
- Uncountable
A country parson.
Usage- Countable
- Obsolete
- Slang
- Uncountable
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No company comes / But a rabble of tenants, and rusty dull rums.
Adjective
Fine, excellent, valuable.
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having a rum time
Strange, peculiar.
Usage- UK usage
- Dated
- Informal
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a rum idea; a rum fellow
"Lor, Noah!" said Charlotte, "What a rum creature you are! Why don't you let the boy alone?"
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[H]e stared after Pynsent stupidly, and pronounced to the landlord over the counter that he was a rum one.
The young men had exchanged few observations; but in crossing Union Square, in front of the monument to Washington—in the very shadow, indeed, projected by the image of the pater patriae—one of them remarked to the other, “It seems a rum-looking place.” “Ah, very odd, very odd,” said the other, who was the clever man of the two.
"Can't you see him?" "Well, I almost thought I did—for a moment. It's such a rum light."
"But you think he's right?" "Could be. They're rum birds, all right."
"She's as 'appy as Larry, but she'll neither move nor eat. It's a rum 'un, isn't it?" It was very rum indeed.
Noun
Any odd person or thing.
Usage- UK usage
- Colloquial
- Dated
Noun
The card game rummy.
Usage- Rare
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Adjective
beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
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a curious hybrid accent
her speech has a funny twang
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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
Noun
liquor distilled from fermented molasses
a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
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