Ale vs Rum - What's the difference?
ale | rum |
An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.
A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.
(uncountable) A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses
(countable) A serving of rum
(countable) A kind or brand of rum
(obsolete, slang) A queer or odd person or thing.
(obsolete, slang) A country parson.
* Jonathan Swift
(obsolete) fine, excellent, valuable
(British, colloquial, dated) strange, peculiar
As nouns the difference between ale and rum
is that ale is an intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops while rum is a distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses.As an adjective rum is
fine, excellent, valuable.ale
English
Noun
- Note: The word ale, in England and the United States, usually designates a heavier kind of fermented liquor, and the word beer a lighter kind. The word beer is also in common use as the generic name for all non-distilled malt liquors.
Synonyms
* (liquor) beer (loosely), yillDerived terms
() * alehouse * alewife * ginger ale * pale ale * real aleAnagrams
* ----rum
English
(wikipedia rum)Etymology 1
Perhaps shortened from rumbullion.Noun
(en noun)- The Royal Navy used to issue a rum ration to sailors.
- Jake tossed down three rums .
- Bundaberg is one of my favourite rums .
- No company comes / But a rabble of tenants, and rusty dull rums .
Etymology 2
Formerly rome'', a slang word for ''good ; possibly of Romany origin; compare .Adjective
(rummer)- a rum''' idea; a '''rum fellow
- (Dickens)
Synonyms
*See also
* rum goQuotations
* 1951 , ,Google Books*: "Can't you see him?" *: "Well, I almost thought I did—for a moment. It's such a rum light." * 1976 , , All Things Wise and Wonderful ,
page 346*: "She's as 'appy as Larry, but she'll neither move nor eat. It's a rum' 'un, isn't it?" It was very ' rum indeed.