Demmie
See also: demmie
English
Alternative forms
- Demmy
Etymology
From Dem + -ie, from Democrat.
Noun
Demmie (plural Demmies)
- (US politics, slang, now rare) A member or supporter of the Democratic Party.
- Synonyms: Democrat, Dem
- 1849 December, C. D. Stuart, Esq., “Rambledom: in Four Chapters. Chapter First”, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume 34, number 6, New York: Samuel Hueston, page 490:
- H. G. was here lately, preaching political truths to the Green Mountain boys. Malicious ‘demmys’ did say he preached for hire, that he put money in his purse thereby, but I know that out of his purse came all his expenses, and never a cent went therein.
- 1888, “Hear the Joyful Song”, in The Tippecanoe Campaign Songster: Harrison and Morton; Sketch of Their Lives and Full Text of the Republican Platform, W. F. Shaw Co., page 17:
- Let the Demmies rail and shout, / And what is it all about, / When they prate of “tariff and reform?” / By their actions in the past / Well we know from first to last, / What the wonders are that they'd perform.
- 1931 May, James P. Egan, “Comment on the National Show”, in Machinists' Monthly Journal, volume 43, number 5, Washington, D.C.: International Association of Machinists, page 300:
- The cheapness of these so-called “great” men was shown when a Senate committee on Unemployment Insurance elected their chairman. Senator Wagner, a Demmy, presented the motion in the Senate that Unemployment Insurance be probed. He, together with Senators Hebert (R. I.) and Glenn (Ill.) were appointed on the committee in the order named.