rum
rum is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scumming 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.
- 2.Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow. [Slang] Dickens.
- 3.A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson. [Slang, Obs.] Swift.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absurdity
- agalloch
- ambrosial
- anticlimax
- aroma
- aromatic
- attar
- awkward
- balm
- balmy
- baroque
- bathos
- bay
- bear
- bergamot
- bizarre
- bombast
- bombastic
- bottle
- bouquet
- buffoonery
- burlesque
- calambac
- calambour
- civet
- comedy
- comical
- comicality
- commit
- contemptible
- dancing
- derisive
- doggerel
- droll
- drollery
- drollish
- eccentric
- eccentricity
- embalm
- essence
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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