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Etymology

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rum +‎ -ly

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Adverb

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rumly (comparative more rumly, superlative most rumly)

  1. (UK, colloquial, dated) In a rum manner; oddly, strangely.
    • c. 1840–1850, Virgil's Aeneid, book v., translated by Thomas Moore
      Thus rumly floor'd, the kind Acestes ran, / And pitying, raised from earth the game old man.