rum

Meanings

Noun

• A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses.
• A serving of rum.
• A kind or brand of rum.
• A queer or odd person or thing.
• A country parson.
• Any odd person or thing.
• The card game rummy.

Adjective

• Fine, excellent, valuable.
• Strange, peculiar.

Related

Similar words

• rumbullion

Origin

• In common use since by at least 1654, of uncertain origin. Theories include:
• that it derives from rum, or from the last syllable of Latin saccharum (given the harsh taste of earlier rum, the first theory is now considered unlikely),
• that it is a shortening of rumbullion or rumbustion, or
• that it is from a Romani word for "strong, potent" which is (perhaps) the source of ramboozle and rumfustian (but these drinks were not originally made with rum)
• that it derives from rummer, from Dutch
• From the earlier form rome, slang for "good"; possibly of Romani origin; compare rom.
• Shortening of rummy.