Meanings
demmy1
- alternativeAlternative form of damme (“damn me”).
What a day, eh? Demmy, it's like the commencement of the rainy season in Bengal. But you'll find my carriage is watertight. Come along, my mother and Emmy are in the vestry.
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
Demmy2
plural Demmys · plural Demmies
- alternativeAlternative form of Demmie.
H. G. was here lately, preaching political truths to the Green Mountain boys. Malicious ‘demmys’ did say he preached for hire, that he put money in his purse thereby, but I know that out of his purse came all his expenses, and never a cent went therein.
1849 December, C. D. Stuart, Esq., “Rambledom: in Four Chapters. Chapter First”, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume 34, number 6, New York: Samuel Hueston, page 490
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