rum
Meanings
Plural: rums
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
- A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses.
- A serving of rum.
- A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses.
- A kind or brand of rum.
- A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses.
- A strange person or thing.
- A country parson.
- Any odd person or thing.
- The card game rummy.
Adjective Satellite
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- "what a rum fellow"
Adj
- Fine, excellent, valuable.
- Strange, peculiar.
Origin / Etymology
In common use since by at least 1654, of uncertain origin. Theories include:
* that it derives from rum (“fine, good”), 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a Romani word for "strong, potent" which is (perhaps) the source of ramboozle and rumfustian (but these drinks were not originally made with rum)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 roemer
Synonyms
abnormality, anomaly, bizarre, curious, deviant, excellent, exceptional, funny, odd, odd duck, outlier, peculiar, pukka, queer, rumbullion, rummy, singular, strange, strange fish, strange person, top-notch, weirdo
Scrabble Score: 5
rum is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordrum is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
rum is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary