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English
Noun
Jemmy-Jessamy (plural Jemmy-Jessamies)
- (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fop.
- Synonyms: buck, popinjay; see also Thesaurus:dandy
Adjective
Jemmy-Jessamy (comparative more Jemmy-Jessamy, superlative most Jemmy-Jessamy)
- (obsolete, British slang) Foppish; effeminate; dandyish.
- Synonyms: dandy, buckish; see also Thesaurus:foppish
1786, Jacques-Antoine Dulaure, Edward (transl.) Drewe, Pogonologia, Exeter: R. Thorn, page 55:These women were more men than our Jemmy-Jessamy countrymen.
1844, William Makepeace Thackeray, 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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