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Rummy vs Rammy - What's the difference?

rummy | rammy |

As adjectives the difference between rummy and rammy

is that rummy is peculiar; odd while rammy is of a food, taste, odour etc.: like a ram; pungent, rank.

As a noun rummy

is a card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong.

rummy

English

Noun

(wikipedia rummy)
  • (uncountable) a card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong.
  • (countable) a rum-drinking alcoholic.

    • See also

    * rummy nose * rummy-nose tetra

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (dated) peculiar; odd
    • a rummy thing
  • Resembling or tasting of rum.
    • a rummy flavour

    Quotations

    * 1920 , , p. 28 *: "You say rummy' things and you do ' rummy things. What I mean to say is, you're impulsive."

    Synonyms

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    rammy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a food, taste, odour etc.: like a ram; pungent, rank.
  • *, II.ii.1.1:
  • *:Galen takes exception at mutton, but without question he means that rammy mutton which is in Turkey and Asia Minor […].
  • (US, colloquial) Frisky, lecherous.