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- adverb In a
rum fashion;oddly ,strangely .
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Examples
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"Rather rummily, that's exactly what I was thinking just now myself."
My Man Jeeves 1928
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"Oh, I know you don't like him and think he behaved rather rummily and so forth, but that's all right now."
Jill the Reckless 1928
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There's young Tom on the box; don't his ears stick out rummily?
Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers F. Anstey 1895
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Well! something good may come of it, and if it does it will be good luck, for, as you and I know, Mother Duty, it has been a rummily written work.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801
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