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Stum vs Strum - What's the difference?

stum | strum |

As nouns the difference between stum and strum

is that stum is unfermented grape juice; must while strum is the sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.

As verbs the difference between stum and strum

is that stum is to ferment while strum is to play a guitar or other stringed instrument using various strings simultaneously.

stum

English

Noun

  • Unfermented grape juice; must.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Let our wines, without mixture of stum , be all fine.
  • * Dryden
    • And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.
  • Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1664 , year_published=1835 , author= , title=Hudibras; with notes by T. R. Nash, Volume 1 , page=265 , section=Part II, Canto 1 , pageurl=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PsQf26jDVSkC&pg=PA265 , passage=Drink ev'ry letter on't in stum ,
    And make it brisk champaign become.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to ferment
  • to renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation
    • We stum our wines to renew their spirits. — Floyer.

    References

    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    strum

    English

    Verb

    (strumm)
  • To play a guitar or other stringed instrument using various strings simultaneously.

    • Derived terms

    * strummer

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.
  • The act of strumming.

    • Anagrams

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