rheum
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rheum¹
- /ɹuːm/ US, UK
Sounds like room (most accents) · Rhymes with -uːm
Where it comes from
From Middle English reume, rewme, from Anglo-Norman reume, from Late Latin rheuma, from Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, humour”). Doublet of stream.
noun rheums
- Thin or watery discharge of mucus or serum, especially from the eyes or nose, formerly thought to cause disease. You that did voide your rume vpon my beard, / And foote me as you ſpurne a ſtranger curre / Ouer your threſhold, […]
- Illness or disease thought to be caused by such secretions; a catarrh, a cold; rheumatism. And not as ſome yeeres ſince, I ſaw a Deane of S. Hillarie of Poictiers, reduced by reaſon and the incommoditie of his melancholy to ſuch a continuall ſolitarineſſe, that when I entered into his chamber he had never remooved one ſteppe out of it in twoo and twenty yeares before: yet had all his facu
- Tears. Rich. And ſay, what ſtore of parting tears were ſhed? / Aum. Faith none for me: except the Northeaſt wind / Which then grew bitterly againſt our face, / Awak’d the ſleepie rhewme, and ſo by chance / Did grace our hollow parting with a teare.
rheum²
- /ɹuːm/ US, UK
Sounds like room (most accents) · Rhymes with -uːm
Where it comes from
Clipping of rheumatologist.
noun rheums
- Clipping of rheumatologist […] the other rheumatologist in the practice I saw after that first meeting was irritated because my history was completely wrong. Not [irritated] at me, [but] the other rheum. […] I had to switch rheums at one point due to insurance problems. […] Thank god my good rheum’s office sorted out the insu
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Talk about this word "rheum." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/rheum. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. rheum. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/rheum "rheum." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/rheum.Cite this
@misc{rheum_2026,
title = {rheum},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rheum},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
