rummy
1 Americannoun
noun
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rummies
plural
adjective
adjective
noun
adjective
noun
adjective
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of rummy1
An Americanism dating back to 1905–10; perhaps special use of rummy 3
Origin of rummy2
First recorded in 1840–45; rum 1 + -y 1
Origin of rummy3
Example Sentences
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"I also lost to my daugher Sophia at cards over Christmas. We played rummy and I think she was cheating - a lot like AI, she was definitely getting some help from somewhere."
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026
A friendship blossoms thanks to a shared affection for gin rummy, but Jones slowly reveals Fish’s tenderness, the possibility of romance spreading out in front of him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
On a suit of twos for rummy, he had printed the words, “Will you marry me?”
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
Roberta later would take her own three children on similar long educational road trips, as well as regularly touring the world with Rowena while they continued a gin rummy game that reportedly lasted for decades.
From Reuters ● Oct. 12, 2020
I think about Friday nights when Pop and I would play rummy while Bubbe made dinner.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
This particular district was sharply split by the temperance party and the rummies.
From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee
There are two kinds of men—gentlemen and rummies.
From Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page
No, not in dead mummies, indeed, but in living rummies.
From In the Sweet Dry and Dry by Bart Haley
If they wanted to call us a lot of rummies, they couldn't do it as effectively by the use of direct language.
From Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains or, A Christmas Success against Odds by Stella M. Francis
Cap'n Sproul and me ain't rummies, and you can't make it out so, not even if you stand here and talk till you spit feathers.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day
It is the way he talks," said MacIan, almost indifferently; "but he says rummier things than that.
From The Ball and the Cross by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
But, good Lord! life for me has been made up of even rummier things than that, and now I’ve got to the end of it.
From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford
And a lot I did think as I drove back to Nice, I do assure you—for a rummier game I had never been engaged in, and that's the truth, upon my word and honour.
From The Man Who Drove the Car by Sir Max Pemberton
It was—and that on'y made it all the rummier!
From The Brass Bottle A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts by F. Anstey
“That ’ere ’ouse, guv’nor, is the rummiest I ever was in.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
She’s the rummiest little thing that ever walked.
From Girls of the Forest by L. T. Meade
He's one of the rummiest little beggars you ever saw; rather like an elderly jockey who's got into parliament.
From Peter Binney A Novel by Archibald Marshall
It's the rummiest yarn I ever heard, but I don't see as how you could make it up.
From The Sweep Winner by Nat Gould
"This is the blankest, rummiest blank go ever I was in," muttered the would-be iconoclast.
From The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary by James Runciman
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