Etymology tree
English jam
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English jammy
From jam + -y.
Meanings
Resembling jam in taste, texture, etc.
a jammy aroma
Covered in jam.
a child's jammy fingers
Containing jam.
a jammy dodger biscuit
(UK, colloquial, of a person) Lucky; especially undeservedly so.
Etymology tree
English jam
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English jammy
From jam + -y.
Meanings
(slang) A gun.
I got the jammy loaded in one hand. 2025, Ghostface Killah, “Metaphysics”:
(US, slang) A penis.
I felt on her big fat fanny / Pulled out the jammy and killed the punanni 1992, Ice Cube, “It Was A Good Day”, in The Predator:
In the bedroom Elaine would have fixed the pillows and sat up, tugging open her jammy top. 2009, Liam McIlvanney, All the Colours of the Town, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 24:
Blue cotton jammy bottoms poked out beneath a fastidious white terry robe. 2009, Nicole Young, chapter 12, in Kiss Me If You Dare: A Patricia Amble Mystery, Revell, page 103:
“[…]I start pleading, ‘Come here.... Please put your jammy top on.... Let me finish dressing you.’ “At last, I’ve got the pajama top over his head, and he starts yelling, ‘Ouch! ouch!’ 2002, Tracy Hogg, Melinda Blau, “Time-Busters: Sleep Deprivation, Separation Difficulties, and Other Problems That Steal Hours from Your Day”, in Secrets of the Baby Whisperer for Toddlers, Random House, section “To Catch a Thief: Neil’s Story”, pages 243–244: