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Jemmy
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jemmy
jemmy
English
Noun
jemmy (plural jemmies)
- (archaic, Britain, slang) A baked sheep's head.
- (Australia, slang) An immigrant.
- (obsolete, slang) A greatcoat.
- Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers:
- your friend in the green jemmy
- Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers:
- Alternative spelling of jimmy (crowbar).
Verb
jemmy (third-person singular simple present jemmies, present participle jemmying, simple past and past participle jemmied)
- To shoehorn, to cram.
- two thousand people jemmied into a stadium built for fifteen hundred
- Alternative spelling of jimmy (open with a crowbar).
Translations
cram — see cram
Adjective
jemmy (comparative jemmier, superlative jemmiest)
See also
References
- jemmy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913