jemmy









jemmy


verb (used with object), jem·mied, jem·my·ing.

  1. jimmy1.

noun, plural jem·mies.

  1. jimmy1.
  2. Slang. an overcoat.
  3. the baked head of a sheep.

noun plural -mies

  1. a short steel crowbar used, esp by burglars, for forcing doors and windows

verb -mies, -mying or -mied

  1. (tr) to prise (something) open with a jemmy

a popular pet form of the masc. proper name James (in Middle English records, Gemme, Jemme are more common than Jimme). In mid-18c. often associated with effeminacy and male fastidiousness. As “a crowbar” from 1811.

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