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Examples
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Hocus, the leg, at his little box near Epsom; where, if report speak true, many ‘rummish plants’ are concocted.
The Book of Snobs 2006
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"Does n't it smell tobaccoey and bay rummish?" said Rosalie Patton, ecstatically sniffing.
Just Patty 1911
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"I'd sooner that craft, Mr Lloyd, were a hundred miles away, or a thousand, for that matter, than where she is: we none of us likes her looks, and she'll prove a rummish customer if she gets alongside of us."
Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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He likes to announce at 'Rummer's' that he is going to run down and spend his Saturday and Sunday in a friendly way with Hocus, the leg, at his little box near Epsom; where, if report speak true, many 'rummish plants' are concocted.
The Book of Snobs William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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"Why it was a _rummish_ piece of business altogether.
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