jorum
/ˈdʒɔːrəm
/noun historical
A large bowl or jug used for serving drinks such as tea or punch.Most of these already hefty meals were ‘washed down’ with jorums of ultra-sweet beverages, notably indigenous preparations of robust viscosity like snowball, or punches made from peanut butter, barbadine, soursop and seamoss....
- It seems ‘a jorum is a chamberpot, in this case used as a mug in drinking healths and toasts.’
- Sitting in what was once a Corsetry Fitting Room, after several jorums, I began to see History with an infinitely greater clarity.
Origin
Early 18th century: perhaps from Joram (2 Sam. 8:10), who ‘brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold’ to King David.
Rhymes
- not playing with a full deck
- not proven
- not put it past someone
- not quite
- not quite the thing
- Notre Dame
- not right in the head
- no-trumper
- no trumps
- not see further than one's (or the end of one's) nose
- not-seeing
- not see someone for dust
- not-self
- not sleep (or get) a wink (or not get a wink of sleep)
- not so dusty
- not someone's day
- not someone's idea of
- not so much —— as ——
- not stand (or have) an earthly
- not stand the ghost of a chance
- not suffer fools gladly
- nott
- not take kindly to
- not take no for an answer
- Nottaway