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rumminess en · NOUN

Etymology

From rummy + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (UK, colloquial, dated, uncountable) The quality of being rummy, or odd.
    • "Tut!" said old Bittlesham. "Tut is right," I agreed. Then the rumminess of the thing struck me. "But if you haven't dropped a parcel over the race," I said, "why are you looking so rattled?" 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves: