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jemmy en · NOUN · etymology 1

From Jemmy, diminutive of James. The verb is from the noun.

(Ireland, UK, archaic, slang) A sheep's head used as food.
(Australia, slang) An immigrant.
(obsolete, slang) A greatcoat.
- your friend in the green jemmy 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of jimmy (“crowbar”).
alt of jimmy
- Louisa fetched the jemmy, and they approached the house in a line;. 2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 217:

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jemmies	Number=Plur		lexicographic

From Jemmy, diminutive of James. The verb is from the noun.

To shoehorn, to cram.
- two thousand people jemmied into a stadium built for fifteen hundred
(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of jimmy (“open with a crowbar”).
alt of jimmy

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jemmies	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
jemmied	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
jemmied	Tense=Past	lexicographic
jemmying	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic

From a variant of gim + -y.

(archaic) Neat; elegant.
- I was agreeably surprised by seeing my young friend and companion, Robert Pott, driving up the avenue in a very jemmy equipage. 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 209

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jemmier	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic
jemmiest	Degree=Sup		lexicographic