rum
rum (rum)
noun
- an alcoholic liquor distilled from fermented sugar cane, molasses, etc.
- ☆ alcoholic liquor in general
Etymology: short for rumbullion, orig. Devonshire dial., uproar, tumult < ?
rum (rum)
adjective
- odd; strange; queer
- bad, poor, etc. a rum joke
Etymology: < obs. rum, good, great < ? Rom, a Gypsy: see Romany
rum
n.
Types of rum include: light, dark, spiced, West Indian, Jamaican, Puerto Rican, Bacardi (trademark), arrack, Cape Horn rainwater;
Converse of object
- spice: Also, the shop has added organic vodka, gin and spiced rum to its alcohol shelves.
- drink: Antoine was drinking rum in a Jamaican bar without a single thought of home.
- add: Fir extra aroma add 25 ml rum to the juices.
- buy: I remember as a teenager trying to buy rum to stick in our cokes, which seems pretty innocent now.
- age: It was in the colonial port city of Santiago de Cuba where in 1862 he began production of his light and aged rums.
- produce: To this day they are producing rum in Guyana.
Adjective modifier
- 4cl: Blue Mist 4cl white rum 1.5cl blue curaçao 1.5cl double cream 3cl fresh orange juice Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice.
- 3cl: Blue Passion 3cl white rum 3cl blue curaçao 3cl fresh lime juice dash gomme syrup Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice.
- fair-trade: She doesn't just drink rum, she drinks fair-trade rum!
- 2cl: Atomic Dog 2cl melon liqueur 2cl coconut rum 2cl white rum Pour melon and coconut liqueurs into a shot glass.
- Jamaican: The cake is made with dried fruit, almonds, pure butter, eggs and Jamaican rum.
- Cuban: A craft market offers typical Cuban souvenirs and the famous Cuban rum and hand-rolled cigars.
Modifies a noun
- punch: Told us to the interior design with rum punch ring of slot.
- ration: The daily rum ration was also looked forward to by many.
- distillery: The sugar industry is structured around nine sugar estates, five of which have rum distilleries.
- cocktail: I can't do Cardiff, we're hosting a pirate-themed rum cocktail party.
- butter: Rum butter is the sort of thing you can make in advance.
- gift: Rum can make an ideal gift for any occasion and some of our rum gifts are available in stylish gift boxes and baskets.
Noun used with modifier
- cane: I watched from a neighbor's veranda with a couple of men, drinking sugar cane rum.
- drinking: Another bizarre evening involved being driven to a small bar on a beach and drinking rum in the sea by moonlight!
Fifteen men on a dead man's chestö Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the restö Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
I am born of the conquerors, you of the persecuted. Raped by rum and an alien law, progress and economics, are you and I and a once-loved land peopled by tribes and trees; doomed traders and stock-exchanges, bought by faceless strangers.
The party whose antecedents are rum, Romanism, and rebellion.
'I expect,' he said,'I was thinking jest what a Rum Go everything is.'
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