A lost British dialect drink — a rough cider brewed with plums thrown into the mix, made in the West Country and drunk by farm labourers who wanted something stronger than plain apple cider. It was the kind of thing knocked back at harvest time with no questions asked about the recipe. The word captures a whole world of rural British booze culture that's mostly vanished.
They passed the jug of jerkum around the barn and nobody asked what exactly was floating in it.
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(UK, dialect) A kind of cider made with plums.
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