Rummy

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rummy \Rum"my\, a.
     Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy
     flavor.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Rummy \Rum"my\, n.; pl. {Rummies}.
     One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person. [Low]
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rummy \Rum"my\, a. [See {Rum}, a.]
     Strange; odd. [Slang]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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