stum
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9.9
Grape juice before it turns into wine
- noun
- /stʌm/
- Archaic
:
mosto
Examples
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Oh, man, this stum tastes like toilet paper.
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Wouldn't surprise me, around here that stum is like gold.
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Uh, why don't you get this, uh, stum in our truck?
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Good stum.
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The winemaker used fresh, unfermented stum to create a unique blend.
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In the vineyard, we tasted the sweet stum before it was fermented into wine.
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They carefully transported the stum to the cellar for further processing.
Synonyms
grape juice
vsstum
15
1.0
A sweet drink made from grapes that has no alcohol
is intended for making wine and can be partly fermented rather than drunk
9.6
Fresh grape juice and grape bits used to make wine
is the liquid stage that may be unfermented or partly fermented for wine
Surface Forms
Etymology
Stum likely comes from the German word Sturm, which means 'storm', because young, partly turned into wine juice foams and bubbles like a little storm. It is like the English word must ('unfermented grape juice'), so stum means the fresh grape juice used to make wine.