rummily

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English rum

English -y

English rummy

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English rummily

From rummy + -ly.

Adverb

rummily (comparative more rummily, superlative most rummily)

1. (UK, colloquial, dated) In a rum fashion; oddly, strangely.
   • 1919, P G Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:

     Rather rummily, that's exactly what I was thinking just now myself.