rammy

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English

Etymology 1

From ram +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

Adjective

rammy (comparative more rammy, superlative most rammy)

  1. (now UK regional) Of a food, taste, odour etc.: like a ram; pungent, rank.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , II.ii.1.1:
      Galen takes exception at mutton, but without question he means that rammy mutton which is in Turkey and Asia Minor
  2. (US, colloquial) Frisky, lecherous.

Etymology 2

Noun

rammy (plural rammies)

  1. (Scotland) A disorderly argument or disturbance; a fracas.