n.
1 a spirit distilled from sugar-cane residues or molasses.
2 US intoxicating liquor.
Phrases and idioms:
rum baba see BABA.
Etymology: 17th c.: perh. abbr. of contemporary forms rumbullion, rumbustion, of unkn. orig.
2.
adj. Brit. colloq.
1 odd, strange, queer.
2 difficult, dangerous.
Phrases and idioms:
rum go (or start) colloq. a surprising occurrence or unforeseen turn of affairs.
Derivatives:
rumly adv. rumness n.
Etymology: 16th-c. cant, orig. = fine, spirited, perh. var. of ROM
Useful english dictionary. 2012.