rum Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun liquor distilled from fermented molasses
  2. noun a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
    rummy.
  3. adjective satellite beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
    funny; singular; queer; curious; odd; peculiar; rummy.
    • a curious hybrid accent
    • her speech has a funny twang
    • they have some funny ideas about war
    • had an odd name
    • the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves
    • something definitely queer about this town
    • what a rum fellow
    • singular behavior

WordNet

Rum noun
Etymology
probably shortened from prov. E. rumbullion a great tumult, formerly applied in the island of Barbadoes to an intoxicating liquor.
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 adjective
Etymology
Formerly rome, a slang word for good; possibly of Gypsy origin; cf. Gypsy rom a husband, a gypsy.
Definitions
  1. Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow. Slang Dickens.
Rum noun
Definitions
  1. A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson. Slang, Obs. Swift.

Webster 1913