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Rummy

//ˈɹʌmɪ// adj, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or tasting of rum.

    "a rummy flavour"

  2. 2
    Peculiar; odd. UK, colloquial, dated

    "“You say rummy things and you do rummy things. What I mean to say is, you're impulsive.”"

Adjective
  1. 1
    beyond or deviating from the usual or expected wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong. uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    A rum-drinking alcoholic.

    "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."

  3. 3
    a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards wordnet
  4. 4
    a chronic drinker wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Unknown, with much speculation. Perhaps related to rum via poker slang, or ultimately from German Ruhm.

Etymology 2

From rum + -y.

Etymology 3

From rum + -y.

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