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  • adjective superlative form of rummy: most rummy.

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Examples

  • ‘Vy,’ responded the factotum, ‘it’s one of the rummiest rigs you ever heard on.

    Sketches by Boz 2007

  • 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

  • Sort o 'wobbly black coffin afloat, and perpelled on the rummiest plan

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 27, 1892 Various

  • 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

  • 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

  • "It's the rummiest stuff!" said the Bush damsel, hopelessly.

    Mates at Billabong 1911

  • 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

  • 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

  • I soon got to know a surprising lot of people, and they were the rummiest birds you can imagine.

    Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

  • 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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