Jemmy
adj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A sheep's head used as food. Ireland, UK, archaic, slang
- 2 a short crowbar wordnet
- 3 An immigrant. Australia, slang
- 4 A greatcoat. obsolete, slang
"your friend in the green jemmy"
- 5 Alternative spelling of jimmy (“crowbar”). alt-of, alternative
"Louisa fetched the jemmy, and they approached the house in a line;."
- 1 To shoehorn, to cram.
"two thousand people jemmied into a stadium built for fifteen hundred"
- 2 Alternative spelling of jimmy (“open with a crowbar”). alt-of, alternative
- 1 Neat; elegant. archaic
"I was agreeably surprised by seeing my young friend and companion, Robert Pott, driving up the avenue in a very jemmy equipage."
- 1 A diminutive of the male given name James.
"Joly Jemmy, [i.e. James IV of Scotland] ye scornefull Scot, Is it come unto your lot A solempne sumner for to be?"
Example
More examples"Louisa fetched the jemmy, and they approached the house in a line;."
Etymology
From Jemmy, diminutive of James. The verb is from the noun.
From a variant of gim + -y.
From Jem + -y.
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