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rumhound en · NOUN

Etymology

From rum + hound.

Meanings

1. (slang) A drunkard who drinks rum.
   • He's young to be such a rumhound, Jim thought. 1961, Joshua M. Craig, Tales Out of School, page 3:
   • The rumhound and loafer had hoed next to Mary, had left double plants, and had in places dug curved marks as if he were playing marbles. 1943, Ben Field, The Outside Leaf, page 73:

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