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Meaning of 'rum' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Rum [ a.]
- Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow.
2 . Rum [ 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.
- A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson.

Meaning of 'rum' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . rum [ s]
Meaning (1):
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
Example in sentence:
  • a curious hybrid accent;
  • had an odd name;
  • her speech has a funny twang;
  • singular behavior;
  • something definitely queer about this town;
  • the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves;
  • they have some funny ideas about war;
  • what a rum fellow

Nearby Words:

rumble rumbler rumbling rumblingly rumbo rumbowline rumen rumicin ruminal ruminant

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