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Japanese
Etymology
Compound of 地元 (jimoto, “hometown”) + English -ee.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
ジモティー • (jimotī) [1]
- (slang) locals
- (slang) friend or acquaintance in one's hometown
2008 August 7, LTJ cycle, X:
- そういや、終電とかで帰るとかなりの確率で中高同じだったジモティーと遭遇する。ちょっと嬉しい。
- Sō iya, shūden toka de kaeru to kanari no kakuritsu de chū-kō onaji datta jimotī to sōgū suru. Chotto ureshii.
- Now that you mention it, when I take the last train home and so on, I quite often run into my hometown friends who went to the same junior high and high school as me. It makes me a little happy.
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