jim

Clipping of English Jimjimen.

jim

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Jimjimen.

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Shortening of jimmy.

jim (third-person singular simple present jims, present participle jimming, simple past and past participle jimmed)

1. (informal) To jimmy (something); to mess up or mess with (something). (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Clipping of Jimmy O'Goblin, rhyming slang for a sovereign.

jim (plural jims)

1. (Australia, colloquial, pre-decimalization) A one-pound banknote.
   • 1906, Edward Dyson, Fact'ry 'Ands:

     He was tearin' ratty t' raise another jim.

jim (plural jims)

1. Alternative form of jeem (“Arabic letter”).

jim (plural jims)

1. (humorous) Alternative form of gym (Can we add an example for this sense?)

“jim”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

• IPA^(key):

jim pl

1. dative plural of on

From Arabic جِيم (jīm).

• IPA^(key): /(d)ʒím/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

jim f

1. jeem (letter of the Arabic alphabet)

• nim (after a preposition)

• IPA^(key):

jim

1. dative of wóni

jim

1. water

• Karyn Crawford, Lexicostatistics and intelligibility testing survey with simplified SLOPE of the Mefele language (2005), SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2005-021: 21, page 18

Borrowed from Arabic جِيم (jīm).

jim (plural jimlar)

1. the Arabic letter ج

• IPA^(key): /jɪm/

From Old Frisian jī, from Proto-Germanic *jūz, from Proto-Indo-European *yúHs, plural of *túh₂..

jim

1. you (second-person plural pronoun)

• jimme

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jim

1. your (second-person plural possessive determiner)

• jimme