jemmy

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛmi

Noun

jemmy (plural jemmies)

  1. (archaic, Britain, slang) A baked sheep's head.
  2. (Australia, slang) An immigrant.
  3. (obsolete, slang) A greatcoat.
    • Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers:
      your friend in the green jemmy
  4. Alternative spelling of jimmy (crowbar).

Verb

jemmy (third-person singular simple present jemmies, present participle jemmying, simple past and past participle jemmied)

  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).

Translations

Adjective

jemmy (comparative jemmier, superlative jemmiest)

  1. (archaic) spruce; elegant.

See also

References

  • jemmy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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