subs. (old).—A drinking-bowl; also a portion of liquor; a NEDDY (q.v.). Sp. granizo (= hail).
d. 1796. BURNS, O May, thy Morn!
| And here’s to them that, like oursel, | |
| Can push about the JORUM! |
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. JORUM, a jug or large pitcher.
1800. LAMB, Letter to Coleridge, Wks. [ed. 1852], ch. v. p. 46. You, for instance, when you are over your fourth or fifth JORUM.
1804. JOHN COLLINS, Scripscrapologia, p. 59, ‘The Naval Subaltern.’
| Nor could a Lieutenant’s poor stipend provoke | |
| The staunch Tar to despise scanty prog; | |
| But his biscuit he’d crack, turn his quid, crack his joke, | |
| And drown care in a JORUM of grog! |
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
1836. DICKENS, Pickwick Papers, xxxviii., p. 333. After dinner, Mr. Bob Sawyer ordered in the largest mortar in the shop, and proceeded to brew a reeking JORUM of rum-punch therein.
d. 1842. J. CUNNINGHAM, ‘Newcastle Beer.’ Apply for a JORUM of Newcastle beer.
1854. MARTIN and AYTOUN, Bon Gaultier Ballads, ‘The Lay of the Lovelorn.’ Hark! my merry comrades call me, bawling for another JORUM.
1858. A. TROLLOPE, Doctor Thorne, xi. He contrived to swallow a JORUM of scalding tea.
1867. LATHAM, English Dictionary, s.v. Jorum. … slang, perhaps connected with YARRUM.
1866. MANSFIELD, School-Life at Winchester College, p. 85. Each end and Præfect’s mess had their beer served up in a large white jug, or ‘bob.’ The vessel used for the same purpose in Commoners’ was called a JORAM.
