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- adjective
superlative form ofrummy : mostrummy .
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Examples
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‘Vy,’ responded the factotum, ‘it’s one of the rummiest rigs you ever heard on.
Sketches by Boz 2007
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Explanations they would never permit, though they made it abundantly clear to him that he was the rummiest burglar they had ever set eyes on.
Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006
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Sort o 'wobbly black coffin afloat, and perpelled on the rummiest plan
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 27, 1892 Various
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I think one of the rummiest affairs I was ever mixed up with, in the course of a lifetime devoted to butting into other people's business, was that affair of George Lattaker at Monte Carlo.
My Man Jeeves 1928
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The brew of the night, however, was a different mixture, quite the rummiest compound of its kind Matthews had ever tasted.
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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"It's the rummiest stuff!" said the Bush damsel, hopelessly.
Mates at Billabong 1911
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The inspector laughed amicably and said: 'No, I think you can be considered out of it, though it's one of the rummiest coincidences I ever saw.
The Innocence of Father Brown: The Hammer of God Gilbert Keith 1911
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I was out with him last night, and he let it out; he said it was the rummiest job they'd had in a long day, and that his chief wouldn't have taken it, but he had
Out of the Ashes Ethel Watts Mumford 1909
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I soon got to know a surprising lot of people, and they were the rummiest birds you can imagine.
Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907
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Well, just befower we seed un we heerd th 'rummiest kind of noise -- summat atween a moan and a shriek, comin' from this 'ere pit.
The Shrieking Pit 1907
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