jemmy

plural jemmies

1. IrelandUKarchaicslangA sheep's head used as food.
2. AustraliaslangAn immigrant.
3. obsoleteslangA greatcoat.

   your friend in the green jemmy

   1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter II, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC

4. alternativeAlternative spelling of jimmy (“crowbar”).

   Louisa fetched the jemmy, and they approached the house in a line;.

   2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 217

present singular third person jemmies · participle present jemmying · participle past jemmied · past jemmied

1. To shoehorn, to cram.

   two thousand people jemmied into a stadium built for fifteen hundred

2. alternativeAlternative spelling of jimmy (“open with a crowbar”).

comparative jemmier · superlative jemmiest

1. archaicNeat; elegant.

   I was agreeably surprised by seeing my young friend and companion, Robert Pott, driving up the avenue in a very jemmy equipage.

   1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 209

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?

   1513, John Skelton, Agaynst the Scottes; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 116, lines 49–51