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Definition of Rammy
1. a. Like a ram; rammish.
Definition of Rammy
1. Adjective. (context: now UK regional) Of a food, taste, odour etc: like a ram; pungent, rank. ¹
2. Adjective. (US colloquial) Frisky, lecherous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rammy
1. rammish [adj -MIER, -MIEST] - See also: rammish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rammy
Literary usage of Rammy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... lotus ut hircus olet, he is a rammy fulsome fellow, a goblin-faced fellow, he
smells, he stinks, Et cepas simid ..."
2. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... he is a rammy fulsome fellow, a goblin-faced fellow, he smells, he stinks, Et
cepas simul ... rammy ..."
3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"1621. BURTON, Anal. Melon., III. in. iil i. A nasty rank, rammy, filthy, beastly
quean. 1670. ... Lustful ; on HEAT (fv) : also rammy and ..."
4. Pieces People Ask For, Serious, Humorous, Pathetic, Patriotic, and Dramatic edited by George Melville Baker (1908)
"With kind and gentle words he came from that tall pulpit down, saying, " rammy,
rammy, ram — best sheepy in the town." And so he kindly, gently, called, ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"rammy, adv. tasting or smelling strong like a ram. MOBBERLEY. A boar when he is
killed " tases very rammy." RAMPAGEOUS, adj. boisterous. ..."
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