rummy
1 Americannoun
noun
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rummies
plural
adjective
adjective
noun
adjective
noun
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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
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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 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
“But I did play gin rummy with the school shrink the other day and I beat him.”
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
This particular district was sharply split by the temperance party and the rummies.
From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee
The rummies are down on you, Mr. Strong, you have been so outspoken against them; and your lecture in the hall last week has made them mad, I tell you.
From The Crucifixion of Philip Strong by Charles Monroe Sheldon
There are two kinds of men—gentlemen and rummies.
From Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page
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
No, not in dead mummies, indeed, but in living rummies.
From In the Sweet Dry and Dry by Bart Haley
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
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
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
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
“That ’ere ’ouse, guv’nor, is the rummiest I ever was in.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
That 'ere 'ouse, guv'nor, is the rummiest I ever was in.
From Dracula by Bram Stoker
You know that room was the rummiest thing.
From The Secret City by Sir Hugh Walpole
I took a gondoler, old man, Sort o' wobbly black coffin afloat, and perpelled on the rummiest plan With one oar and a kind of notched post.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 27, 1892 by Various
It seemed to me at first the rummiest thing that ever I see.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917 by Various
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