Rummy

Definition: Rummy

Rummy

Adjective

1. 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".

Noun

1. A chronic drinker.

2. A card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rummy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references)

Synonyms: Rummy

Crosswords: Rummy

Romanian (rummy), Swedish (rummy).

Commander, how would you and your men like two weeks with nothing to do but play gin rummy, go surfing, have luaus with steel drum bands, dancing girls, hmm (McHale's Navy; writing credit: Ray Brenner; George Carleton Brown)

The Rummy (1933)

Judge Rummy in Bear Facts (1920)

The Rummy (1916)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• All I Need to Know in Life I Learned in a Rummy Game (reference)

• Five State Rummy Game Cards (reference)

• Presidents Rummy (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Discover 500 Rummy Card Game (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "rummy": basket rummy ♦ Gin rummy ♦ knock rummy. Additional references.

Albanian

rum (rum), i çuditshëm (bizarre, cranky, curious, dark, eccentric, electric, erratic, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, frabjous, freak, freakish, funny, grotesque, kinky, odd, oddish, off beat, outlandish, peculiar, pixilated, puzzling, quaint, queer, quizzical, strange, surprising, uncanny, unco, unnatural, unusual, viewy, way out, weird, whimsical). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لعبة الريمية بورق الشدة, ‏سكير (alcoholic, bacchanalian, blind drunk, drinker, drunk, drunken, hard drinker, heavy), ‏ثمل (besotted, blind drunk, boozer, boozing, boozy, drunk, drunken, high, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, intoxication, lush, maudlin, pickled, plastered, screwed, screwed up, smashed, sottish, stewed, stoned, take to drink, tanked, tight, tipsy, well oiled). (various references)

Bulgarian 

странен (bizarre, comic, comical, fantastic, fantastical, freakish, funny, grotesque, novel, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, remarkable, rum, screwy, singular, strange, uncanny, unco, unheard of, weird, whimsical), руми, чудат (comic, comical, crackpot, eccentric, extravagant, faddish, faddy, odd, peculiar, pixilated, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, screwy, singular, vagrant, viewy), къркач (winebag), опасен (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, dangerous, hazardous, hot, insecure, lively, parlous, perilous, pestiferous, precarious, redoubtable, risky, rocky, rum, slippery, slippy, trappy, ugly, unchancy, unsafe, unsure, virulent, volatile, warm), мъчен (awkward, difficult, formidable, hairy, ill, rum, stiff, tight, tough, trying), пияница (alcoholic, bacchanal, bibber, boozer, boozy, dram-drinker, drinker, drunkard, inebriate, soak, soaker, sot, souse, sponge, stew, tippler, toper, winebag, winebibber, wino). (various references)

Czech

remy, žolíky. (various references)

Farsi 

مست لایعقل , عجیب (Eccentric, Extravagant, Marvelous, Strange, Stupendous, Tremendous, Unco, Unfamiliar, Unfamiliarity), بازی ورق رامی . (various references)

French

rami, poivrot, ivrogne. (various references)

German

romme. (various references)

Greek 

ραμί (China grass, ramie, rhea). (various references)

Hungarian

römi, furcsa (bizarre, bonkers, cockeyed, curious, dorky, droll, fanciful, fantasy, freakish, freaky, funny, grotesque, how odd that, kooky, louche, odd, outlandish, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, strange, strange to say, weird). (various references)

Italian

ramino (kettle), strambo (eccentric, odd, queer, strange, wacky, weirdie, weirdo), singolare (bizarre, curious, newfangled, rare, singular, strange, unexampled, unusual), originale (eccentric, new, odd, original, originally, queer, racy, real, refreshing, strange), curioso (agog, curious, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, nosey, nosy, peculiar, pry, quaint, queer, sightseeing, snoopy), bizzarro (antic, bizarre, odd, outlandish, quaint, queer, strange), bislacco (aberrational, eccentric). (various references)

Manx

rummee. (various references)

Pig Latin

ummyray.(various references)

Portuguese

borracho (drunk, drunkard, screwed, toper), beberrão (bacchant, bum, carouser, drunkard, soaker, sot, winebag). (various references)

Romanian

rummy, joc de remi, ciudat (cranky, curious, droll, eccentric, extraordinary, extravagant, fanciful, fancy, freakish, funny, intriguing, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, particular, peculiar, peculiarly, quaint, queer, rum, singular, strange, strangely, uncouth, unusual, weird, whimsical), bizar (bizarre, droll, extravagant, fancy, quaint, queer, singular, strange, strangely, whimsical). (various references)

Russian 

странный (bizarre, curious, exotic, freakish, freaky, funny, kinky, left-field, odd, oddish, off-the wall, peculiar, phoney, queer, strange, unaccountable, unco, vagarious, weird), ром (rum). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

remi (gin rummy), poput ruma, pijanica (alcoholic, bibber, boozer, drinker, drunkard, inebriate, malt-worm, sot, souse, stiff, tippler, toper, winebibber). (various references)

Spanish

extraño (alien, bizarre, dago, droll, eerie, extraneous, foreign, kinky, odd, oddish, out of the way, peculiar, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, singular, strange, stranger, uncommon, weird), borracho (addicted to wine, alcoholic, boiled, boozer, boozy, capernoited, crapulent, dram-drinker, drunk, drunkard, drunken, fuddled, groggily, inebriate, intoxicated, loaded, lushed, malty, plastered, sloshed, souse, stewed, stoned, tight, well oiled). (various references)

Swedish

rummy. (various references)

Thai

ไพ่รัมมี่ (gin rummy), คล้ายเหล้ารัม. (various references)

Turkish

remi, tuhaf (antic, bizarre, comical, cranky, curious, droll, erratic, flaky, funnily, funny, funny peculiar, laughable, odd, offbeat, peculiar, peregrine, queer, quizzical, rum, screwball, screwy, singular, splay, strange, twee, unaccustomed, uncouth, unusual, weird, whimsical), komik (amusing, burlesque, comedian, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, funnyman, gilbertian, humorous, jesting, jocose, laugh, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, quizzical, rich, ridiculous, risible, rum), garip (awkward, bizarre, codger, comical, cranky, crotchety, curious, droll, eccentric, exotic, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, far out, freak, freakish, funny, funny peculiar, grotesque, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, poor, queer, quizzical, rum, screwball, screwy, strange, weirdo, whimsical), acayip (antic, bizarre, bughouse, comical, comically, crotchety, curious, droll, exotic, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, flaky, freak, freakish, grotesque, incongruous, kinky, kooky, novel, odd, out of the way, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, quizzical, rum, screwball, singular, some, splendiferous, strange, uncanny, unco, unusual, weird). (various references)

Ukrainian

алкоголік (alcoholic, dipsomaniac, drinker, user), підозрілий (doubtful, dubious, leery, mistrustful, questionable, rum, screwy, suspect, suspicious, wary), дивний (amazing, astonishing, astounding, bizarre, capricious, curious, freakish, odd, oddball, oddish, offbeat, original, out of the way, outlandish, quaint, queer, rum, strange, unaccountable, weird, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "rummy": crummy, thrummy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rummy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Drummie, Lummy, pummy, rammy, remmy, remy, romdy, romy, ruhm, Rumby, rumi, rumpy, rumx, rumy, tremmy, Umy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: mum, rum, umm, yum.

-3 letters: mm, mu, my, um.

+1 letter: crummy.

+2 letters: mummery, nummary, summary, summery, thrummy, yummier.

+3 letters: flummery, maumetry, summerly, summitry.

+4 letters: paramylum, summarily.

+5 letters: immaturely, immaturity, myocardium, paramylums, perimysium.