rummer
rummer noun: a large drinking-glass for alcoholic drinks, chiefly wine, typically with a short or heavy stem. Also the comparative form of rum.
Noun
rummer (plural rummers)
- A large drinking-glass for alcoholic drinks, chiefly wine, typically with a short or heavy stem.
- I won, and regaled myself with cold roast beef and rummers of punch.1793, James Boswell, “Journals 1789–1795”, in Danziger, Brady, editors, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 241
Also used as
rummer is also the comparative form of rum.
Forms of rummer
| plural | rummers |
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Origin of rummer
Partly from Dutch roemer, rummer (West Flanders); partly from Middle Low German römer; partly from German Römer (“Roman person or thing”), named because it was made in glassworks dating from the Roman era. See also roemer; and for the etymology compare Romeware.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Questions about rummer
- What does rummer mean?
- Rummer means a large drinking-glass for alcoholic drinks, chiefly wine, typically with a short or heavy stem.
- What part of speech is rummer?
- Rummer is a noun.
- What is the plural of rummer?
- The plural of rummer is rummers.
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