rummy

A card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong.uncountableusually

Resembling or tasting of rum.

• a rummy flavour

Peculiar; odd.AustraliaUKcolloquial

• ‘Up to this time, you understand, we had only built a bit of a slab hut [...] a cow-yard, and the rummiest bit of fencing you every looked at.’
• “You say rummy things and you do rummy things. What I mean to say is, you're impulsive.”

A rum-drinking alcoholic.

• No one has forgotten Frank Dodd, the crossing guard who went crazy here twelve years ago and killed those women, and they haven't forgotten the dog, either, the one that came down with rabies and killed Joe Camber and the old rummy down the