Rum , n. A queer or odd person or
thing; a country parson. [Slang, Obs.]
Swift.
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.
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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