rummy

Etymology 1

Unknown.

noun

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

Etymology 2

rum + -y

adj

1. Resembling or tasting of rum.
   a rummy flavour
2. (UK, colloquial, dated) Peculiar; odd.
   “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

1. 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 road from him. 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things