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Jem
Jem
English
Proper noun
Jem
- A male nickname for James, Jeremy or Jeremiah.
- 1830, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names
- You may know what one man thinks of another by his manner of calling him. Thomas and James and Richard and William are stupid young gentlemen; Tom and Jem and Dick and Will are fine spirited fellows.
- 1830, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names
- A diminutive of the female given name Jemima.