jhemes

Yola

Noun

jhemes

  1. Alternative form of chemis
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 64:
      Reed jhemes.
      Red rags.
    • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 100:
      Amang wefty jhemes, 'cha jeist ee-rid apan.
      Among cobwebby scraps, I have just alighted on.

References
  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 48
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