rummy
1 Americannoun
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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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"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
On a recent afternoon, Russian-speaking immigrants, many of them retirees, played dominoes and rummy at picnic tables in West Hollywood’s Plummer Park, nicknamed Gorky Park after Moscow’s famous green space.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2022
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
Hanks then told fans that Wilson had beat him in six straight hands of gin rummy.
From Fox News ● Mar. 28, 2020
Then Robin kissed the top of Ivy’s head, and Ivy pulled back and wiped her face with her arm, and they went back to playing rummy.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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
No, not in dead mummies, indeed, but in living rummies.
From In the Sweet Dry and Dry by Haley, Bart
Half of each was composed of rummies and the other half of anti-rummies, after the moral and political share-and-share-alike fashion of the frontier town of the period.
From The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Twain, Mark
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.
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)
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
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
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.
“That ’ere ’ouse, guv’nor, is the rummiest I ever was in.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
I soon got to know a surprising lot of people, and they were the rummiest birds you can imagine.
From Mr. Standfast by Buchan, John
That 'ere 'ouse, guv'nor, is the rummiest I ever was in.
From Dracula by Stoker, Bram
"Well, of all the rum goes," said Tom, "this is the rummiest go I ever experienced!"
From Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories by Cram, Ralph Adams
"Well, that's the rummiest go!" said the bewildered Dempsey to himself, as he walked towards his bicycle.
From Harvest by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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