"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.
中文解释
1. 喝了酒后就会耍酒疯，于是各种古怪的、奇特的、奇葩的、荒诞的行为就表现出来了，丑态百出。
实用例句
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.
