jim-jam

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Noun

jim-jam

  1. attributive form of jim-jams
    • 2002, Liz Jensen, War Crimes for the Home, Bloomsbury Publishing, published June 2010, →ISBN:
      […] when I lift back the cover which is a nice bedspread, lilac and purple with little flowers, girly you’d say for a man, I see he’s just got his jim-jam top on but no bottoms, the dirty old monkey, […]
    • 2007, Duncan McLaren, Looking for Enid: The Mysterious and Inventive Life of Enid Blyton, Portobello Books, →ISBN, page 280:
      And some mornings she wakes up with just her jim-jam bottoms on, wanting to be a dog.
    • 2009, Maureen Carter, chapter 14, in Blood Money, Crème de la Crime, →ISBN:
      Her Snoopy jim-jam bottoms were at half mast; she hauled them up with one hand, concerned gaze covertly raking the teenager’s damaged face.
    • 2011, Piper Maitland, Acquainted With the Night, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN:
      He peeled up the jim-jam top. The movement set her creamy breasts to quivering.
    • 2011, Jack Sheffield, Please Sir!, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN, page 270:
      ‘Well, Mr Sheffield,’ he said mournfully, ‘ah get pains in m’back when ah put mi jim-jam bottoms on at bedtime.’
    • 2019, Dreda Say Mitchell [professional name; Louise Emma Joseph], Spare Room, Bloodhound Books, →ISBN:
      At the toilet I reach under my cardigan, start to pull my pyjama bottoms down… and the shower curtain swishes back. With a cry of alarm, my jim-jam bottoms drop to my knees as I fall sideways heavily into the wall. […] Delicate areas reminds me that Martha and Jack are no doubt in their birthday suits in the bath, and my jim-jam bottoms are still down.
    • 2020, Stephen Box, The Odd Patients, Xlibris, →ISBN:
      Before we do, I want you to remove your jim-jam bottoms, so you’re fully exposed.
    • 2021, Darragh McManus, “Diary of an Expedition To Leave My Bed and Venture Downstairs To Find Sustenance in the Form of Coffee and Biscuits”, in Brevity Is the Soul: Wit from Lockdown Ireland, Liberties Press, →ISBN:
      Travelling light is essential, so I shall only bring what I bear on my person – thick socks, jim-jam pants, a T-shirt with a rude word on the front – and this diary, as testament to my expedition, and written valediction should the journey go ill.
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