Jemmy-Jessamy

English

Noun

Jemmy-Jessamy (plural Jemmy-Jessamies)

(obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fop.

Synonyms

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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.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:foppish

References

Farmer, John Stephen (1896) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 4, page 45

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