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rumdum, rumdumb, a. and n. N. Amer. slang.|ˈrʌmdʌm|
Also rumdumm and with hyphen.
[f. rum n.1 + dumb a. (n.)]
A. adj.
a. Stupefied through drink; unconscious; incapacitated; stupid.
b. Humdrum.
1891Brooklyn Eagle 11 Sept. 2/4 Rum-dumb,..stupid with continual drinking. 1922S. Lewis Babbitt vii. 99 Don't faint with surprise if some of those rum-dumm liars get one good swift poke from Mike. 1936J. Steinbeck In Dubious Battle i. 15. Cop slugged me from behind, right in the back of the neck... I was rumdum for a long time. 1939― Grapes of Wrath xv. 215 He jus' stan's there lookin' at that dead kid. Can't get a word of 'im. Jus' rum-dumb. 1973Newsweek 12 Mar. 96 Ponicsan finds surprising depth and touching delicacy in the rumdum lives he weaves together—dime-store and dinner women, odd-job truckers and coal-mine cripples. 1975Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 14 Sept. 6/1 Mr. Brown had gone on a humdinger of a toot after a lucky find and wound up in bed rumdumb with no fire in his cabin.
B. n.
a. A habitual drunkard; a stupid person.
b. Someone of ordinary ability.
1891Brooklyn Eagle 11 Sept. 2/4 Rum-dumb,..an habitual soak. 1916G. A. England Pod, Bender & Co. 8 Why don't we lure in some rumdum of an ex-heavy⁓weight. 1949N. Algren Man with Golden Arm i. 16 The cell was full of a drifting flesh-coloured light and the murmuring rumdums were being let out of the cells to wash. 1960C. Hamblett in J. Pudney Pick of Today's Short Stories XI. 137 Other drinkers..mocked at him and called him cloth-head, or rumdum, or plain moron. 1976Harper's Mag. July 72/2, I beat the rum-dums but go down before quality players. |