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Liqueur vs Rum - What's the difference?

liqueur | rum |

As nouns the difference between liqueur and rum

is that liqueur is a flavored alcoholic beverage that is usually very sweet and contains a high percentage of alcohol. Cordials are a type of liqueur manufactured using the infusion process as opposed to the essence and distillation processes while rum is a distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses.

As an adjective rum is

fine, excellent, valuable.

liqueur

English

(wikipedia liqueur)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A flavored alcoholic beverage that is usually very sweet and contains a high percentage of alcohol. Cordials are a type of liqueur manufactured using the infusion process as opposed to the essence and distillation processes.

    • Related terms

    * liquid * liquidate * liquidation * liquidator * liquidity * liquidizer * liquor

    See also

    * cordial * ratafia ----

    rum

    English

    (wikipedia rum)

    Etymology 1

    Perhaps shortened from rumbullion.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses
    • The Royal Navy used to issue a rum ration to sailors.
  • (countable) A serving of rum
    • Jake tossed down three rums .
  • (countable) A kind or brand of rum
    • Bundaberg is one of my favourite rums .
  • (obsolete, slang) A queer or odd person or thing.
  • (obsolete, slang) A country parson.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • 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)
  • (obsolete) fine, excellent, valuable
  • (British, colloquial, dated) strange, peculiar
    • a rum''' idea; a '''rum fellow
    (Dickens)
    Synonyms
    *

    See also

    * rum go

    Quotations

    * 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.

    Anagrams

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