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▪ I. ˈrummy, n.1
[f. rum n.1 + -y.]
1. (See quot. 1890.) U.S.
1860Emerson Cond. Life, Power, He led the ‘rummies’ and radicals in town-meeting with a speech. 1890C. L. Norton Political Amer. 96 Rummies, a local name for the political opponents of the temperance party in Maine.
2. a. A habitual drunkard; an alcoholic. slang (chiefly U.S.).
1851J. H. Green Twelve Days in Tombs 55 The learned counsel of the rummies opened his defence{ddd}the court adjourned, and the rummies repaired to another bar to congratulate each other upon the success of the morning. 1907G. B. Shaw Major Barbara 170 Your Rummies of the tamest respectability pretending to a past of reckless and dazzling vice. 1939[see nut factory s.v. nut n.1 23]. 1962E. Lacy Freeloaders vi. 124 You'd go to pieces, become a rummy. 1975Publishers Weekly 20 Jan. 67/1 A salty old rummy who specializes in pious letters pleading for help.
b. A stupid person; a blockhead; a sucker. U.S. slang.
1912Ade Knocking Neighbors 108 She extracted a promise from Cousin and several other Desperate Characters that they would come out into the wilderness and give the Rummies a Touch of High Life. 1913J. London Valley of Moon 59 You'd better tell the rummy to beat it. 1937Reader's Digest Oct. 36/2 Most rummies never discover they have been rooked.
▪ II. rummy, n.2 orig. U.S.
Also rumme.
[Origin uncertain.]
Any of a group of card games, similar to coon-can, the main object of which is to acquire runs or flushes of three or more cards. Also attrib. See also gin rummy s.v. gin n.2 2 b, Oklahoma.
1910Sun (N.Y.) 10 Sept. ii. 3/1 The leader this season seems to be a new round game that is called rum. Some persons have it rhum, rhummy and even rhumston. 1913Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 13 May 536/2 Milton Bradley Company, Springfield, Mass. Filed Mar. 20, 1913. Rumme. 1915Chicago Herald 30 Nov. 15/4 This gave him the idea the game was rummy and he spread the nines on the table. 1919S. Lewis Free Air xix. 202 He takes some kind of dope, and he cheats at rummy. 1928L. North Parasites 285 Sometimes they played écarté..or Rummy. 1934W. Saroyan Daring Young Man 213, I would sneak out of the bookie joint and run across the street to a rummy parlour and get into a game. 1964A. Wykes Gambling vii. 164 Games of the rummy series appear to be the oldest. 1974Harrods Gift Catal. 60/1 Packs of cards to play Bingo, Crosswords, Rummy and a variety of games.
▪ III. rummy, a.1 (n.3) slang or colloq.|ˈrʌmɪ|
[f. rum a.2 + -y.]
A. adj. Odd, queer, singular. Also Comb.
1828Sporting Mag. XXIII. 19 A neat, but rather rummy looking blue pony. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset II. 355 They're a rummy couple if what I hear is true. 1892Spectator 13 Feb. 223/2 The ‘rummy’ names people give their houses in the suburbs.
B. as n. An odd or unconventional person.
1975G. V. Higgins City on Hill iv. 117 At least the rummies that swing it in Dorchester're alive. 1977J. Wambaugh Black Marble (1978) vi. 72 She always had to look at the rummy to see if he was putting her on. Ibid., It must be dope... This rummy's a doper!
Hence ˈrummily adv.; ˈrumminess.
1827Scott Jrnl. 5 Apr., I know..it has been a rummily written work. 1899E. Phillpotts Human Boy 172 This story shows the rumminess of Nubby Tomkins.
▪ IV. ˈrummy, a.2
[f. rum n.1 + -y.]
Of or pertaining to, suggestive of, rum. Also, drunken.
1834Jamestown (N.Y.) Jrnl. 29 Jan. 1/5 The Massachusetts Masons,..like the rummy deacon, who fell from his horse—have merely ‘got off to get on better’. 1843Amer. Pioneer II. 372 He departed, muttering curses loud and deep, and in a voice peculiarly rummy. 1864Webster s.v., A rummy flavour. 1961W. A. White in Webster s.v., His face was blotched..his eyes were rummy, his jaw was uncertain.
▪ V. rummy, v.
[f. rummy n.2]
intr. To obtain a hand that can be laid down at rummy; to say ‘rummy’ signifying this. Also const. out.
1929Encycl. Brit. XIX. 658/2 Directly a player rummies that deal is finished, and all the hands are exposed and added up. 1966L. Davidson Long Way to Shiloh x. 144 ‘What about a game of cards?’.. She played with immense concentration and rummied out in about five minutes. |