What is the difference between rum and gin?
rum | gin |
(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
A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.
(uncountable) gin rummy
(poker) drawing the best card or combination of cards
(obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.
(obsolete) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
A snare or trap for game.
A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
(mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
A pile driver.
A windpump.
A cotton gin.
An instrument of torture worked with screws.
To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
To trap something in a gin.
To invent (via Irish), see gin up
(archaic) To begin.
An Aboriginal woman.
* 1869 , Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia , Volume 1,
* 1988 , Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked , Angus & Robertson, 1995, p.179,
* 2008 , Bill Marsh, Jack Goldsmith, Goldie: Adventures in a Vanishing Australia ,
In uncountable terms the difference between rum and gin
is that rum is a distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses while gin is gin rummy.In obsolete terms the difference between rum and gin
is that rum is fine, excellent, valuable while gin is contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.As an adjective rum
is fine, excellent, valuable.As a verb gin is
to remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.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.
Anagrams
* ----gin
English
Etymology 1
Abbreviation of geneva or alternatively from (etyl) . Hence Gin rummy (first attested 1941).Noun
(wikipedia gin)Derived terms
* bathtub gin * sloe ginReferences
* *Etymology 2
Aphetism of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Chaucer)
- (Spenser)
Verb
(ginn)Etymology 3
From (etyl)Verb
Etymology 4
From (etyl) dyin, but having acquired a derogatory tone., Australian Aboriginal Words'', Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-553099-3, page 167.Noun
(en noun)page 273,
- His next shot was discharged amongst the mob, and most unfortunately wounded the gin already mentioned ; who, with a child fastened to her back, slid down the bank, and lay, apparently dying, with her legs in the water.
- Dad said Shoesmith and Thompson had made one error that cost them their lives by letting the gins into the camp, and the blacks speared them all.
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- But there was this gin there, see, what they called a kitchen girl.