rummy

English

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌmɪ/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌmi/
Rhymes: -ʌmi

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Noun

rummy (usually uncountable, plural rummies)

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

Derived terms

Translations

card game

Arabic: هَانْد رِيمِي‎ m (hānd rīmī), هَانْد‎ m (hānd)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: žolíky (cs) m pl, remy m
Danish: rommy 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)
Irish: rumaí m
Italian: ramino (it) m
Japanese: ラミー (ramī)

Korean: 러미 (reomi)
Macedonian: реми n (remi)
Malayalam: റമ്മി (ṟammi)
Polish: remik (pl) m, remibrydż 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

rum +‎ -y

Adjective

rummy (comparative rummier, superlative rummiest)

Resembling or tasting of rum.
a rummy flavour
(Britain, 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

Noun

rummy (plural rummies)

A rum-drinking alcoholic.

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