lummy
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Interjection edit
lummy
- Alternative form of lumme
Adjective edit
lummy (comparative more lummy, superlative most lummy)
- (slang) shrewd; knowing; cute
- 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
- To think of Jack Dawkins—lummy Jack—the Dodger—the Artful Dodger—going abroad for a common twopenny-halfpenny sneeze-box!
- (UK, slang, obsolete) jolly, first-rate.
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- (jolly, first-rate): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary