Definition of "rummy"

rummy¹

/ˈɹʌmɪ/

noun
usually uncountable, plural rummies
1. A card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong.

rummy²

/ˈɹʌmɪ/

adjective
comparative rummier, superlative rummiest
1. Resembling or tasting of rum.
2. (UK, colloquial, dated) Peculiar; odd.
  Quotations
  “You say rummy things and you do rummy things. What I mean to say is, you're impulsive.”
  1920, P. G. Wodehouse, Jill the Reckless, page 28
noun
plural rummies
1. A rum-drinking alcoholic.
  Quotations
  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 road from him.
  1991, Stephen King, Needful Things