rum – English noun declension

English noun forms of rum

Noun: rum
Singularrum
Pluralrums

Sample Sentences

  • ... 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 ... [1639 September 24, John Josselyn, Journal in An Account of Two Voyages to New-England... (1673), p. 24]
  • That the former orders concerning rum, sugar, and hammocks be still in force, viz., one half to be forfeited to the King, and one half to the informer. [1661 July 3, Orders of the Governor and Council of Jamaica in Colonial Papers: America and West Indies (1880), §123]
  • — Why is rum gone? — One, because it is a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels! [2003, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl:]
  • The Royal Navy used to issue a rum ration to sailors.
  • Jake tossed down three rums.
  • Bundaberg is one of my favourite rums.
  • No company comes / But a rabble of tenants, and rusty dull rums. [1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn:]

Etymology

1. In common use since at least 1654, of uncertain origin. Theories include:
2. * that it is a shortening of rumbullion or rumbustion, names for rum also attested in the Caribbean during the mid-17th century,
3. * that it derives from rummer, from Dutch roemer,
4. * that it is from a Romani word for "strong, potent" which is (perhaps) the source of ramboozle and rumfustian (however, these drinks were not originally made with rum),
5. * that it derives from rum ("fine, good") or from the last syllable of Latin saccharum (given the harsh taste of earlier rum, this origin is now considered unlikely) See: Latin Nouns 'saccharum'.

Verbs referencing "rum"

Czech Nouns rum, Dutch Nouns rum, Hungarian Nouns rum, Irish Nouns rum, German Nouns Rum, Danish Nouns rom, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns rom, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns rom, Finnish Nouns rommi, Spanish Nouns romo, French Nouns rhum, Belarusan Nouns ром, Bulgarian Nouns ром, Russian Nouns ром, Ukrainian Nouns ром.