noun

• 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.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘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.’
  • ‘Wyk is measured in jorums.’

  Synonyms

  earthenware container, glass container, pot, crock, urn, pitcher, jug, flask, decanter, carafe, flagon, ewer, drum, canister