Meanings
plural jomers
- UKobsoleteslangA sweetheart, or favourite girl.
[…] going about the county half-naked, but having good clothes, perhaps sent forward to the lodging-house by his jomer (girl); this is very often a profitable trade; the shallow-cove of course selling all the clothes he does not need himself.
1859, Snowden's Magistrates Assistant, page 87
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