Jemmy-Jessamy
English
Noun
Jemmy-Jessamy (plural Jemmy-Jessamies)
- (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fop.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:dandy
Adjective
Jemmy-Jessamy (comparative more Jemmy-Jessamy, superlative most Jemmy-Jessamy)
- (obsolete, British slang) Foppish; effeminate; dandyish.
- 1786, Dulaure, Jacques-Antoine; Drewe, Edward (transl.), Pogonologia, Exeter: R. Thorn, page 55:
- These women were more men than our Jemmy-Jessamy countrymen.
- 1844, Thackeray, William Makepeace, chapter 13, in The Luck of Barry Lyndon:
- I promise you this was very different language to that she had been in the habit of hearing from her Jemmy-Jessamy adorers.
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Alternative forms
- Jemmy Jessamy
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:foppish
References
- Farmer, John Stephen (1896) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 4, page 45
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary