What's the difference between rummy and yummy?

Rummy


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.
  • (n.) One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person.
  • (a.) Strange; odd.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At their second session, he and the doctor started playing gin rummy.
  • (2) Rummy – he’s your problem!” Donald Rumsfeld, then Ford’s 43-year-old chief of staff, was apparently operating under the delusion that Chicago could shortly become the world’s financial centre.
  • (3) Well, Rummy comes from Illinois,” Laird confided.
  • (4) Despite the apparent puritanism, the Saturday dances and gin rummy sessions in Mao's cave-house were a shock after the earnest conversation of American communists in the US.

Yummy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You may be greeted with a shotgun and a suspicious snarl as we were – then a plate of yummy moose meat, cooked on a blazing fire.
  • (2) If we stay beautiful we’re sexually objectified as selfish, entitled “yummy mummies” or Milfs.
  • (3) But M&S has tried to target by age – so there's a yummy mummy section, an aging squares department and a pensioners' aisle.
  • (4) He once told a journalist that he stayed so thin because he ate "baby food" but he meant "comfort food", leading to the oft-repeated and not entirely unbelievable notion of him subsisting on Cow & Gate Yummy Harvest Chicken.)
  • (5) All these places, especially Good 2 Go Taco, offer vegetarian and healthy options that are just as yummy.
  • (6) Throw in, too, the challenge of what it means to be a good enough parent, given what economist Heather Boushey calls the "ship-has-sailed reality" that only the richest can afford to keep a full-time yummy mummy in the house.
  • (7) For picnic supplies, the yummy Monkland Cheese Dairy is excellent for replacing any fat you burned off during your swim.
  • (8) "Thirty years ago my husband wasn't even allowed in the delivery room – you can't imagine that happening now," a yummy mummy's mummy told me.
  • (9) It was a cultural ideal, and probably bore no more relation to the lives of working mothers than the Yummy Mummy did to mothers who didn't work.
  • (10) If that’s for the yummy-mummy crowd, Richard Nicoll worked with Sweaty Betty – hardly a brand on most London fashion week designers’ radars – to design something that fits in with the rest of us.
  • (11) Watercress and lentil salad in a citrus dressing Angela Kim's yummy watercress and lentil salad.
  • (12) 9.38am BST Tristram Hunt , the new shadow education secretary, once dismissed free schools as "a vanity project for yummy mummies".
  • (13) "Yummy mummys" – or "yummy mummys and John" as it was known until I complained that the name implied I wasn't yummy – is what our neonatal class became when it moved from the health centre to a cafe, and our children moved from inside to outside.
  • (14) It's a beautiful film called Learning to Drive and it stars me and Ben Kingsley and it's delicious and yummy and funny, funny, funny, and very moving."
  • (15) As shadow education secretary he has made a few gaffes that may have infuriated the very middle Englanders he seeks to woo, including referring to parents who like free schools as “yummy mummies” and questioning whether nuns make good teachers.

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