Stum vs Slum - What's the difference?
stum | slum |
Unfermented grape juice; must.
* Ben Jonson
* Dryden
Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.
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And make it brisk champaign become. to ferment
to renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation
(Webster 1913)
A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
:*Charles Dickens,
To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.
To associate with people or engage in activities with a status below one's own.
As nouns the difference between stum and slum
is that stum is unfermented grape juice; must while slum is a dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.As verbs the difference between stum and slum
is that stum is to ferment while slum is to visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.stum
English
Noun
- Let our wines, without mixture of stum , be all fine.
- And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.
And make it brisk champaign become.
Verb
(en verb)- We stum our wines to renew their spirits. — Floyer.
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Anagrams
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English
(wikipedia slum)Noun
(en noun)- Go to the half built-upon slums behind Battlebridge [...] you will find groups of boys [...] squatting in the mud, among the rubbish, the broken bricks, the dust-heaps, and the fragments of timber [...].
Gambling.
