jim-jam

alternative jimjam

1. attributiveAttributive form of jim-jams.

   He peeled up the jim-jam top. The movement set her creamy breasts to quivering.

   2011, Piper Maitland, Acquainted With the Night, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN

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   […] when I lift back the cover which is a nice bedspread, lilac and purple with little flowers, girly you’d say for a man, I see he’s just got his jim-jam top on but no bottoms, the dirty old monkey, […]

   2002, Liz Jensen, War Crimes for the Home, Bloomsbury Publishing, published June 2010, →ISBN

   And some mornings she wakes up with just her jim-jam bottoms on, wanting to be a dog.

   2007, Duncan McLaren, Looking for Enid: The Mysterious and Inventive Life of Enid Blyton, Portobello Books, →ISBN, page 280

   Her Snoopy jim-jam bottoms were at half mast; she hauled them up with one hand, concerned gaze covertly raking the teenager’s damaged face.

   2009, Maureen Carter, chapter 14, in Blood Money, Crème de la Crime, →ISBN

   ‘Well, Mr Sheffield,’ he said mournfully, ‘ah get pains in m’back when ah put mi jim-jam bottoms on at bedtime.’

   2011, Jack Sheffield, Please Sir!, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN, page 270

   At the toilet I reach under my cardigan, start to pull my pyjama bottoms down… and the shower curtain swishes back. With a cry of alarm, my jim-jam bottoms drop to my knees as I fall sideways heavily into the wall. […] Delicate areas reminds me that Martha and Jack are no doubt in their birthday suits in the bath, and my jim-jam bottoms are still down.

   2019, Dreda Say Mitchell [professional name; Louise Emma Joseph], Spare Room, Bloodhound Books, →ISBN