Rummy \Rum"my\, a.
Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy
flavor.
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Rummy \Rum"my\, n.; pl. Rummies.
One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person. [Low]
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Rummy \Rum"my\, a. [See Rum, a.]
Strange; odd. [Slang]
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rummy
adj : beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious
hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they
have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name";
"the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something
definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow";
"singular behavior" [syn: curious, funny, odd, peculiar,
queer, rum, singular]
n 1: a chronic drinker [syn: drunkard, drunk, sot, inebriate]
2: a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the
winner is the first to meld all their cards [syn: rum]
WordNet (r) 2.0
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "rummy":
bizarre, boozehound, boozer, bottle sucker, bum, curious, drunk,
eccentric, elbow bender, ginhound, guzzler, hooch hound, inebriate,
lush, lusher, odd, oddball, peculiar, queer, rum, rum hound,
singular, soak, souse, sponge, stew, swillbelly, swillbowl,
swiller, swillpot, tippler, wino
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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