rummer
English
Etymology 1
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.
Noun
rummer (plural rummers)
- A large drinking-glass for alcoholic drinks, typically with a short or heavy stem. [from 17th c.]
- 1793, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 241:
- I won, and regaled myself with cold roast beef and rummers of punch.
- 1793, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 241:
Danish
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