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
She just hugs me some more and tells me she loves me, and after a game of gin rummy Mom gently informs her that it’s time to go.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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
I was walkin' in my sleep as nice as you please when those rummies lep' on me.
From Going Some by Rex Ellingwood Beach
Cap'n Sproul and me ain't rummies, and you can't make it out so, not even if you stand here and talk till you spit feathers.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day
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
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
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
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
"Well, this is the rummiest go I have ever known," said the explosive man profoundly.
From Bones in London by Edgar Wallace
"The rummiest little beggar," says Lord Burdon, introducing his small son.
From The Happy Warrior by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
That 'ere 'ouse, guv'nor, is the rummiest I ever was in.
From Dracula by Bram Stoker
You know that room was the rummiest thing.
From The Secret City by Sir Hugh Walpole
