rummy

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌmɪ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌmi/
• Rhymes: -ʌmi

Etymology 1

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

Noun

rummy (usually uncountable, plural rummies)

1. A card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong.

Derived terms

• boathouse rummy
• gin rummy
• Indian rummy
• knock rummy
• Liverpool rummy
• Michigan rummy
• Persian rummy
• pinochle rummy

 

Translations

card game

• Arabic: هَانْد رِيمِي m (hānd rīmī), هَانْد m (hānd)
• Bulgarian: рум m (rum)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拉密牌

• Czech: žolíky (cs) m pl, remy m
• Danish: rommy n
• Dutch: rummy n
• Esperanto: rumio
• Finnish: rommi (fi)
• French: rami (fr) m
• German: Rommé (de) n, Rommee n
• Greek: ραμί (el) n (ramí)
• Hebrew: רֶמִי m (remí)
• Hindi: रमी (hi) f (ramī)
• Hungarian: römi (hu)
• Indonesian: remi (id)
• Irish: rumaí m
• Italian: ramino (it) m
• Japanese: ラミー (ramī)
• Korean: 러미 (reomi)
• Macedonian: реми n (remi)
• Malayalam: റമ്മി (ṟammi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rummy m

• Polish: remik (pl) m, remibrydż (pl) m, żolik m
• Romanian: rummy (ro) n
• Russian: ра́мми m (rámmi), ре́мик m (rémik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рѐми m

  Roman: rèmi (sh) m

• Sinhalese: රුම්මි (rummi)
• Slovak: remy m, žolík m, žolíky m pl
• Slovene: remi m
• Tamil: ரம்மி (rammi)
• Telugu: రమ్మీ (rammī)
• Thai: รัมมี่ (ram-mîi)
• Turkish: remi (tr)

Etymology 2

From rum +‎ -y.

Adjective

rummy (comparative rummier, superlative rummiest)

1. Resembling or tasting of rum.

   a rummy flavour

2. (UK, colloquial, dated) Peculiar; odd.
   • 1920, P. G. Wodehouse, Jill the Reckless, page 28:

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

Derived terms

• rummily
• rumminess
• rummy nose
• rummy-nose tetra

 

Translations

resembling or tasting of rum

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 朗姆酒味的 (lǎnɡmǔjiǔ wèi de)

• Dutch: rumachtig
• Finnish: romminen

peculiar — see odd

Noun

rummy (plural rummies)

1. A rum-drinking alcoholic.
   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:

     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.

Translations

rum-drinking alcoholic

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嗜飲朗姆酒的人／嗜饮朗姆酒的人 (shì yǐn lǎngmǔjiǔ de rén)

• Dutch: rumdrinker m
• Finnish: rommijuoppo

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rummy.

Noun

rummy n (uncountable)

1. rummy

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	rummy	rummyul
genitive-dative	rummy	rummyului
vocative	rummyule