rum

• adj. 古怪的；奇特的
• n. 朗姆酒
• n. (Rum)人名；(葡、印尼)鲁姆

据说是来自吉普赛语 rom,男人，丈夫，引申词义强壮的，有力的，优秀的，极好的，后词 义讽刺的反转至古怪的，奇特的。

词源不详，存在诸多猜测。可能来自 rum,强壮的，有力的，用以形容这种酒的劲道强劲。

rum (n.)

"liquor from sugar cane or molasses," 1650s, shortening of rumbullion (1651), rombostion (1652), of uncertain origin, perhaps from rum (adj.).

The chiefe fudling they make in the Island [i.e. Barbados] is Rumbullion alias Kill-Devill, and this is made of suggar cane distilled, a hott, hellish and terrible liquor. ["A briefe Description of the Island of Barbados," 1651]

The English word was borrowed into Dutch, German, Swedish, Danish, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, and Russian. Used since 1800 in North America as a general (hostile) name for intoxicating liquors.

Rum I take to be the name which unwashed moralists apply alike to the product distilled from molasses and the noblest juices of the vineyard. Burgundy in "all its sunset glow" is rum. Champagne, soul of "the foaming grape of Eastern France," is rum. ... Sir, I repudiate the loathsome vulgarism as an insult to the first miracle wrought by the Founder of our religion! [Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table," 1891]

rum (adj.)

"excellent, fine, good, valuable," 1560s, from rome "fine" (1560s), said to be from Romany rom "male, husband" (see Romany). E.g. rum kicks "Breeches of gold or silver brocade, or richly laced with gold or silver" [Grose, "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1785].

A very common 16c. cant word, by 1774 it also had come to mean "odd, strange, bad, spurious," perhaps because it had been so often used approvingly by rogues in reference to one another. This was the main sense after c. 1800.

1. a concoction of cream and rum

奶油和朗姆酒调制的怪味饮料

来自《权威词典》

2. His favourite tipple was rum and lemon.

他最爱喝的饮料是朗姆酒加柠檬汁。

来自《权威词典》

3. Puerto Rico is famous for its light and dark rum.

波多黎各以其味淡、色黑的朗姆酒而著称.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. It was a joke, of course, but surely a rum sort of joke?

这当然是个玩笑，但是这个玩笑也太奇怪了吧？

来自柯林斯例句

5. She was rum-maging through the letters, scattering them about the table in her heedless haste.

她在信件里乱翻，匆忙冒失之下将它们扔得满桌都是。

来自柯林斯例句