rummy

In his Jeeves stories, Bertie Wooster is briefly employed by a magazine called Milady's Boudoir, which was housed "in one of those rummy streets in the Covent Garden neighbourhood".

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025

Without much warning, these adults will suddenly start speaking in a cartoonish voice: Eric turns rummy as a mannered Brit named Charles, while Rachel murmurs as “Moopie-Moopie.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

We play gin rummy together by candlelight after dinner.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2022

"She always thinks of others first, and she stays positive no matter what, even when I beat her at our favorite game of gin rummy!"

From Fox News ● Dec. 28, 2021

Sometimes we play a few hands of gin rummy before bed.

From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold

The rummies are down on you, Mr. Strong, you have been so outspoken against them; and your lecture in the hall last week has made them mad, I tell you.

From The Crucifixion of Philip Strong by Charles Monroe Sheldon

Half of each was composed of rummies and the other half of anti-rummies, after the moral and political share-and-share-alike fashion of the frontier town of the period.

From The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

This particular district was sharply split by the temperance party and the rummies.

From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee

There are two kinds of men—gentlemen and rummies.

From Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page

If they wanted to call us a lot of rummies, they couldn't do it as effectively by the use of direct language.

From Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains or, A Christmas Success against Odds by Stella M. Francis

It was—and that on'y made it all the rummier!

From The Brass Bottle A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts by F. Anstey

And a lot I did think as I drove back to Nice, I do assure you—for a rummier game I had never been engaged in, and that's the truth, upon my word and honour.

From The Man Who Drove the Car by Sir Max Pemberton

But, good Lord! life for me has been made up of even rummier things than that, and now I’ve got to the end of it.

From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford

It is the way he talks," said MacIan, almost indifferently; "but he says rummier things than that.

From The Ball and the Cross by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

“That ’ere ’ouse, guv’nor, is the rummiest I ever was in.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

But he ran right off the rails an' chatted away about the rummiest things, such as theatricals.

From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

The rummiest thing is the way those little donkeys get about with a fat chap perched on the top of a saddle two feet above them.

From The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition by Joseph Nash

It's a rum case," said the superintendent, rising, "and if you don't mind my saying so, Mr. Beale, you're one of the rummiest men that figure in it.

From The Green Rust by Edgar Wallace

I soon got to know a surprising lot of people, and they were the rummiest birds you can imagine.

From Mr. Standfast by John Buchan