rum

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses.

   ... I went aboard the Fellowship of 100 and 70 Tuns a Flemish bottom, the Master George Luxon of Bittiford in Devonshire, several of my friends came to bid me farewell, among the rest Captain Thomas Wannerton who drank to me a pint of kill-devil alias Rhum at a draught ...

2. 2
   noun

   A country parson.

   No company comes / But a rabble of tenants, and rusty dull rums.

3. 3
   adj

   Fine, excellent, valuable.

   Having a rum time.

4. 4
   adj

   Strange, peculiar.

   A rum idea; a rum fellow.

From Seljuk Old Anatolian Turkish and Ottoman Turkish روم (Rum, “Rome; Byzantine Empire; central Anatolia”), from Arabic رُوم (Rūm, “Rome; Byzantine Empire”), from Middle Persian 𐭧𐭫𐭥𐭬 (Hrom), from Byzantine Greek Ῥωμανία (Rhōmanía, “Byzantine Empire”), from Latin Romani (“Romans”), from Roma (“Rome”). Doublet of Roma and Rome.

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