rummy
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹʌmɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹʌmi/
- Rhymes: -ʌmi
Etymology 1 edit
Unknown, with much speculation. Perhaps related to rum via poker slang, or ultimately from German Ruhm.
Noun edit
rummy (usually uncountable, plural rummies)
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
card game
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Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
rummy (comparative rummier, superlative rummiest)
- Resembling or tasting of rum.
- a rummy flavour
- (UK, colloquial, dated) Peculiar; odd.
- 1920, P. G. Wodehouse, Jill the Reckless, page 28:
- “You say rummy things and you do rummy things. What I mean to say is, you're impulsive.”
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
rummy (plural rummies)
- A rum-drinking alcoholic.
- 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
- No one has forgotten Frank Dodd, the crossing guard who went crazy here twelve years ago and killed those women, and they haven't forgotten the dog, either, the one that came down with rabies and killed Joe Camber and the old rummy down the road from him.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English rummy.
Noun edit
rummy n (uncountable)
Declension edit
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