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Jorum   Listen
noun
Jorum  n.  A large drinking vessel; also, its contents. (Colloq. Eng.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Jorum" Quotes from Famous Books



... tripe that Gargamelle so rashly devoured. There are men now living, and honoured members of society in Scotland, who admit the soft impeachment of having drunk in their youth twelve or fourteen "double" tumblers at a sitting. Now a double tumbler, be it known to the Southron, is a jorum of toddy to which there go two wineglasses (of course of the old-fashioned size, not our modern goblets) of whisky. "Indeed," said a humorous and indulgent lady correspondent of Wilson's, "indeed, I really think you eat too many oysters at the Noctes;" and any one who believes in distributive ...
— Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 • George Saintsbury

... rum," he answered, "is great for the memory. I b'lieve most any doctor'd advise a jorum of rum for a man in my fix, to restore ...
— Vandemark's Folly • Herbert Quick



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