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rummy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rummy has 2 senses
- rummy(n = noun.person) drunk, drunkard, inebriate, sot, wino - a chronic drinker; Array has particulars: alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, souse
- rummy(n = noun.act) rum - a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards; Array is a kind of card game, cards
is a kind of drinker, imbiber, juicer, toper
has particulars: gin, gin rummy, knock rummy, basket rummy, canasta, meld
Adjective rummy has 1 sense
- rummy(s = adj.all) curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, singular - 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"
CIDE DICTIONARY
rummy, a.
Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor. [1913 Webster]
rummy, n.
One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person. [1913 Webster]
Strange; odd. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rummy, n. a card-game played usu. with two packs, in which the players try to form sets and sequences of cards.
rummy, adj. Brit. colloq. = RUM(2).
THESAURUS
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
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