Rub vs Rum - What's the difference?
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An act of rubbing.
A difficulty or problem.
* III.i.71-75
* , Episode 16
In the game of crown green bowls: any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
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, title= To rub something against (a second thing).
* Sir T. Elyot
To be rubbed against something.
To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
* Milton
(dated) To move or pass with difficulty.
To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up'' or ''over .
* South
To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
* Shakespeare
(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
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Noun
(en noun)- Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out
- Therein lies the rub .
- To die, to sleep—/To sleep—perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub !/For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,/When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,/Must give us pause
- ...the propriety of the cabman's shelter, as it was called, hardly a stonesthrow away near Butt bridge where they might hit upon some drinkables in the shape of a milk and soda or a mineral. But how to get there was the rub .
Verb
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- It shall be expedient, after that body is cleaned, to rub the body with a coarse linen cloth.
- meat rubbed with spices before barbecuing
- The smoothed plank, / New rubbed with balm.
- to rub up silver
- The whole business of our redemption is to rub over the defaced copy of the creation.
- 'Tis the duke's pleasure, / Whose disposition, all the world well knows, / Will not be rubbed nor stopped.
Derived terms
* rubber * rubbing * rub elbows * rub in * rub it in * rub out * rub off * rub shoulders * rub up * rub up onExternal links
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(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
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Synonyms
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* 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.