rum

Speech parts

1. rum - Noun

2. rum - Adjective

3. rum - Adjective Satellite

4. Rum - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow.

A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

queer funny peculiar curious bizarre rummy odd weird unusual singular strange exceptional abnormal eccentric jamaican
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Antonyms

common average conventional familiar commonplace dull
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Hypernyms

liquor booze John Barleycorn cards card game hard liquor

Hyponyms

demerara gin canasta meld grog gin rummy

Phrases with the word

run rum demon rum rum customer almond rum ball caramel rum ball hot buttered rum

Examples

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda... You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas. Marshall McLuhan

I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys. L. Ron Hubbard

The ploughman ploughs, the fisherman dreams of fish; Aloft, the sailor, through a world of ropes Guides tangled meditations, feverish With memories of girls forsaken, hopes Of brief reunions, new discoveries, Past rum consumed, rum promised, rum potential. Michael Hamburger

She's got a rum job, but she knows how to do it, and to have a job and know how to do it is one of the best things in this life. And if only she stops hankering after Cambridge... Arthur Ransome

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. Lord Byron

Godamighty mek man straight, a rum mek him can't ‘tan' up. Jamaican Proverb

Close letter words and terms

rully Rulo ruly rum baba rum ball rum bosun