jorumn.
/ˈdʒɔːrəm/, U.S. /ˈdʒoʊrəm/, /ˈdʒɔrəm/ a. A large drinking-bowl or vessel; also, the contents of this; esp. a bowl of punch.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > bowl
punch-pot1600
bowl of punch1659
punchbowl1675
temperer1675
crater1730
jorum1730
lebes1851
calyx crater1896
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > hot alcoholic drinks (with milk or eggs) > [noun] > punch > bowl or drink of
punch1682
sneaker1699
jorum1730
1730 H. Fielding Pleasures of Town iii. Air xiii, in Author's Farce 45 The Usurer is a Swallow, Sir, That can swallow Gold by the Jorum.
1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 10 Then come, put the jorum about, And let us be merry and clever.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Jorum, a jug, or large pitcher.
1796 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum V. 477 Here's to them, that, like oursel, Can push about the jorum.
1823 J. G. Lockhart Reginald Dalton I. i. xi. 140 A huge jorum of mulled port.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxxvi. 302 The host smiled..and shortly afterwards returned with a steaming jorum.
1868 M. E. Braddon Run to Earth III. ix. 148 I know how to brew a decent jorum of punch when I give my mind to it.
b. figurative. A large quantity.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount
felec825
muchc1230
good wone1297
plentyc1300
bushelc1374
sight1390
mickle-whata1393
forcea1400
manynessa1400
multitudea1400
packc1400
a good dealc1430
greata1450
sackful1484
power1489
horseloadc1500
mile1508
lump1523
a deal?1532
peckc1535
heapa1547
mass1566
mass1569
gallon1575
armful1579
cart-load1587
mickle1599
bushelful1600–12
a load1609
wreck1612
parisha1616
herd1618
fair share1650
heapa1661
muchness1674
reams1681
hantle1693
mort1694
doll?1719
lift1755
acre1759
beaucoup1760
ton1770
boxload1795
boatload1807
lot1811
dollop1819
swag1819
faggald1824
screed1826
Niagara1828
wad1828
lashings1829
butt1831
slew1839
ocean1840
any amount (of)1848
rake1851
slather1857
horde1860
torrent1864
sheaf1865
oodlesa1867
dead load1869
scad1869
stack1870
jorum1872
a heap sight1874
firlot1883
oodlings1886
chunka1889
whips1888
God's quantity1895
streetful1901
bag1917
fid1920
fleetful1923
mob1927
bucketload1930
pisspot1944
shitload1954
megaton1957
mob-o-ton1975
gazillion1978
buttload1988
shit ton1991
1872 St. James's Mag. Dec. 632 Treated to a jorum of gossip.
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