据说是来自吉普赛语 rom,男人,丈夫,引申词义强壮的,有力的,优秀的,极好的,后词 义讽刺的反转至古怪的,奇特的。
rum 朗姆酒词源不详,存在诸多猜测。可能来自 rum,强壮的,有力的,用以形容这种酒的劲道强劲。
The chiefe fudling they make in the Island [i.e. Barbados] is Rumbullion alias Kill-Devill, and this is made of suggar cane distilled, a hott, hellish and terrible liquor. ["A briefe Description of the Island of Barbados," 1651]The English word was borrowed into Dutch, German, Swedish, Danish, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, and Russian. Used since 1800 in North America as a general (hostile) name for intoxicating liquors.
Rum I take to be the name which unwashed moralists apply alike to the product distilled from molasses and the noblest juices of the vineyard. Burgundy in "all its sunset glow" is rum. Champagne, soul of "the foaming grape of Eastern France," is rum. ... Sir, I repudiate the loathsome vulgarism as an insult to the first miracle wrought by the Founder of our religion! [Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table," 1891]
来自《权威词典》
来自《权威词典》
来自《简明英汉词典》
来自柯林斯例句
来自柯林斯例句