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jim-jam en · NOUN
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(attributive, form-of) Attributive form of jim-jams.
‘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: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: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: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:[…] 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:Travelling light is essential, so I shall only bring what I bear on my person – thick socks, jim-jam pants, a T-shirt with a rude word on the front – and this diary, as testament to my expedition, and written valediction should the journey go ill.
2021, Darragh McManus, “Diary of an Expedition To Leave My Bed and Venture Downstairs To Find Sustenance in the Form of Coffee and Biscuits”, in Brevity Is the Soul: Wit from Lockdown Ireland, Liberties Press, →ISBN: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:Before we do, I want you to remove your jim-jam bottoms, so you’re fully exposed.
2020, Stephen Box, The Odd Patients, Xlibris, →ISBN:
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