"Rum" Definition

Definitions for the word "Rum" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. a.
Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Spirit distilled from sugar-cane or molasses. [origin unknown]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
5. adj.
(rummer, rummest) colloq. Odd, strange, queer. [origin unknown]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
6. slang
like its opposite, QUEER, was formerly a much-used prefix, signifying fine, good, gallant, or valuable; perhaps in some way connected with ROME. Nowadays it means indifferent, bad, or questionable, and we often hear even persons in polite society use such a phrase as, “What a RUM fellow he is, to be sure,” in speaking of a man of singular habits or appearance. The term, from its frequent use, long since claimed a place in our dictionaries; but, with the exception of Johnson, who says RUM, a cant word for a clergyman(!), no lexicographer has deigned to notice it. “Thus RUMLY floor’d, the kind Acestes ran, And pitying, raised from earth the game old man.” _Virgil’s Æneid_, book v., Translation _by Thomas Moore_.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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