rummy
1 Americannoun
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adjective
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adjective
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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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In his Jeeves stories, Bertie Wooster is briefly employed by a magazine called Milady's Boudoir, which was housed "in one of those rummy streets in the Covent Garden neighbourhood".
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025
"She always thinks of others first, and she stays positive no matter what, even when I beat her at our favorite game of gin rummy!"
From Fox News ● Dec. 28, 2021
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
She taught me how to play rummy, which is a card game Americans play at summer camps.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
I was walkin' in my sleep as nice as you please when those rummies lep' on me.
From Going Some by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
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 Day, Holman
This particular district was sharply split by the temperance party and the rummies.
From Confessions of Boyhood by Albee, John
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 Francis, Stella M.
There are two kinds of men—gentlemen and rummies.
From Writing for Vaudeville by Page, Brett
It was—and that on'y made it all the rummier!
From The Brass Bottle A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts by Anstey, F.
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 Mitford, Bertram
It is the way he talks," said MacIan, almost indifferently; "but he says rummier things than that.
From The Ball and the Cross by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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 Pemberton, Max, Sir
“That ’ere ’ouse, guv’nor, is the rummiest I ever was in.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
"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 Runciman, James
But I've seen little toffs in white weskits a slinging our lingo to rights, About colds, and cock-salmons, and shop 'uns; it's one of the rummiest sights.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93. July 30, 1887 by
She’s the rummiest little thing that ever walked.
From Girls of the Forest by Meade, L. T.
But he ran right off the rails an' chatted away about the rummiest things, such as theatricals.
From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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