adj
Meaning 1
Resembling or tasting of rum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a rummy flavour
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
rummy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌmɪ/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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General-American: /ˈɹʌmi/
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rhymes with -ʌmi
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CMU ARPABET: R AH1 M IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Peculiar; odd.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, colloquial, dated
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A rum-drinking alcoholic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, singular
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: card game, cards
Narrower terms: gin, gin rummy, knock rummy, canasta, basket rummy, meld
noun
Meaning 7
a chronic drinker
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: drunkard, drunk, sot, inebriate, wino
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: drinker, imbiber, toper, juicer
Narrower terms: alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker, souse
History
Etymology
From rum + -y.
Unknown, with much speculation. Perhaps related to rum via poker slang, or ultimately from German Ruhm.
Across languages
Translations
51 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 朗姆酒味的 (lǎnɡmǔjiǔ wèi de) — resembling or tasting of rum
- Dutch: rumachtig — resembling or tasting of rum
- Finnish: romminen — resembling or tasting of rum
- Polish: rumowy — resembling or tasting of rum
- Arabic: هَانْد رِيمِي (hānd rīmī) — card game
- Arabic: هَانْد (hānd) — card game
- Bulgarian: рум (rum) — card game
- Chinese Mandarin: 拉密牌 — card game
- Czech: žolíky — card game
- Czech: remy — card game
- Danish: rommy — card game
- Dutch: rummy — card game
- Esperanto: rumio — card game
- Finnish: rommi — card game
- French: rami — card game
- German: Rommé — card game
- German: Rommee — card game
- Greek: ραμί (ramí) — card game
- Hebrew: רֶמִי (remí) — card game
- Hindi: रमी (ramī) — card game
- Hungarian: römi — card game
- Indonesian: remi — card game
- Irish: rumaí — card game
- Italian: ramino — card game
- Japanese: ラミー (ramī) — card game
- Korean: 러미 (reomi) — card game
- Macedonian: реми (remi) — card game
- Malayalam: റമ്മി (ṟammi) — card game
- Norwegian Bokmål: rummy — card game
- Polish: remik — card game
- Polish: remibrydż — card game
- Polish: żolik — card game
- Romanian: rummy — card game
- Russian: ра́мми (rámmi) — card game
- Russian: ре́мик (rémik) — card game
- Serbo-Croatian: рѐми — card game
- Serbo-Croatian: rèmi — card game
- Sinhalese: රුම්මි (rummi) — card game
- Slovak: remy — card game
- Slovak: žolík — card game
- Slovak: žolíky — card game
- Slovene: remi — card game
- Tamil: ரம்மி (rammi) — card game
- Telugu: రమ్మీ (rammī) — card game
- Thai: รัมมี่ (ram-mîi) — card game
- Turkish: remi — card game
- Chinese Mandarin: 嗜飲朗姆酒的人 /嗜饮朗姆酒的人 (shì yǐn lǎngmǔjiǔ de rén) — rum-drinking alcoholic
- Dutch: rumdrinker — rum-drinking alcoholic
- Finnish: rommijuoppo — rum-drinking alcoholic
- Polish: moczymorda — rum-drinking alcoholic
- Polish: ochlapus — rum-drinking alcoholic
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