Jemmy-Jessamy

English

Noun

Jemmy-Jessamy (plural Jemmy-Jessamies)

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

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:dandy

Adjective

Jemmy-Jessamy (comparative more Jemmy-Jessamy, superlative most Jemmy-Jessamy)

(obsolete, British slang) Foppish; effeminate; dandyish.
- 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.

Alternative forms

Jemmy Jessamy

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:foppish

References

John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1896) “Jemmy-Jessamy”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume IV, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 45.
John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

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