lummy

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lummy

1. Alternative form of lumme.

lummy (comparative more lummy, superlative most lummy)

1. (slang) shrewd; knowing; cute
   • 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:

     To think of Jack Dawkins—lummy Jack—the Dodger—the Artful Dodger—going abroad for a common twopenny-halfpenny sneeze-box!

2. (UK, slang, obsolete) jolly, first-rate.

• lummily
• lumminess

• (jolly, first-rate): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary