rummy
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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
"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
On a suit of twos for rummy, he had printed the words, “Will you marry me?”
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
Roberta later would take her own three children on similar long educational road trips, as well as regularly touring the world with Rowena while they continued a gin rummy game that reportedly lasted for decades.
From Reuters ● Oct. 12, 2020
Rowan and Esme went to the game room and played gin rummy, mercifully undisturbed by talk of gleaning and quotas and the kissing of rings.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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
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
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
There are two kinds of men—gentlemen and rummies.
From Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page
This particular district was sharply split by the temperance party and the rummies.
From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee
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
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
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
“That ’ere ’ouse, guv’nor, is the rummiest I ever was in.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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 the rummiest yarn I ever heard, but I don't see as how you could make it up.
From The Sweep Winner by Nat Gould
It seemed to me at first the rummiest thing that ever I see.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917 by Various
That 'ere 'ouse, guv'nor, is the rummiest I ever was in.
From Dracula by Bram Stoker
