rummer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rummer
1645–55; < Dutch roemer large wine glass, especially for Rhine wine, perhaps derivative of roemen to praise (as in drinking a toast)
Example Sentences
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“So ’p mi-Duvel!” penned the rye, “if tute nashered sār booti covvas for mandy, I’ll rummer tute.”
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey
I have had this morning a desperate design in my head to attack you in verse, which I should certainly have done could I have found out a rhyme to rummer.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George
"Yes, but it was rummer still about Rosalind Nightingale—his Rosalind Nightingale, the one he knew."
From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend
On the blind of an inn the shadow of a bearded man held the shadow of a rummer to its mouth.
From Romance by Conrad, Joseph
Rizard or Finnan harddies, or a dish of oysters, with a glass of Edinburgh ale, and a rummer of toddy, concluded these friendly evenings.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Smiles, Samuel
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