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Rum vs Alcoholic - What's the difference?

rum | alcoholic |

As nouns the difference between rum and alcoholic

is that rum is room while alcoholic is alcoholic.

As an adjective alcoholic is

alcoholic.

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

    * ----

    alcoholic

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person addicted to alcohol.
  • * - Alcoholic
    • Don't you know you've got your daddy's eyes
    Daddy was an alcoholic
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}
  • One who abuses alcohol.

    • Synonyms

    * dipsomaniac, drunkard

    Antonyms

    * teetotaler, on the wagon

    See also

    *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to alcohol.
  • Having more than a trace amount of alcohol in its contents.
    • He ordered an alcoholic beverage.
    The oysters were sour, and excessively alcoholic .
  • Of, pertaining to, or affected by alcoholism

    • Antonyms

    * nonalcoholic

    Related terms

    * alcohol

    Derived terms

    * Alcoholics Anonymous ----