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say it: ruhm
rum is a noun and adjective meaning "liquor distilled from fermented molasses". It carries 3 recorded senses.
liquor distilled from fermented molasses
a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
“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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rum come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.