English

Noun

jemmy ‎(plural jemmies)

1. (archaic, Britain, slang) A baked sheep's head.
2. (Australia, slang) An immigrant.
3. (obsolete, slang) A greatcoat.
   • Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers:

     your friend in the green jemmy

4. Alternative spelling of jimmy (crowbar).

Verb

jemmy ‎(third-person singular simple present jemmies, present participle jemmying, simple past and past participle jemmied)

1. To shoehorn, to cram.

   two thousand people jemmied into a stadium built for fifteen hundred

2. Alternative spelling of jimmy (open with a crowbar).

Translations

Adjective

jemmy ‎(comparative jemmier, superlative jemmiest)

1. (archaic) spruce; elegant.

See also

• jimmy

References

• jemmy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913