rum

• adj.奇妙な; 特異な
• n. ラム酒
• n. （ラム酒の）人名; （ポルトガル語、インドネシア語の）ラム酒

ジプシーのrom、man、husbandに由来すると言われ、派生的に強い、力強い、優れた、見事な、後に皮肉なことにeccentric、peculiarに逆転した。

ラムの語源は不明で、様々な憶測を呼んでいる。蒸留酒の強さを表す、強い、力強い、からきている可能性がある。

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

クリームとラム酒で作った怪味飲料

2.His favourite tipple was rum and lemon.

彼が最も愛飲している飲み物はラム酒にレモン汁だ。

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

プエルトリコは味が薄く、色が黒いラム酒として知られている。

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

これはもちろん冗談ですが、この冗談もおかしいのではないでしょうか？

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

彼女は手紙の中をかき回し、あわてててテーブルいっぱいに投げた。