jorum

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a large drinking bowl or vessel, together with the drink it holds

   They passed a steaming jorum of punch around the table.

2. 2
   noun

   a large quantity of a drink or other substance

   Miss Skiffins brewed a generous jorum of tea for her guests.

The origin is uncertain. One old proposal connects jorum with the biblical Joram, who brought vessels of precious metal to David; another compares Arabic jarra, 'earthen vessel.' The word has denoted a large drinking vessel, its contents, or a large quantity since the early eighteenth century.

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