jemmy-jessamy

noun 1adj 1

Collocations

VERB + JEMMY-JESSAMY

hearing

JEMMY-JESSAMY + NOUN

adorers, countrymen

PREP.

from, than

noun

A dandy; a fop.

adj

Foppish; effeminate; dandyish.

These women were more men than our Jemmy-Jessamy countrymen.

I promise you this was very different language to that she had been in the habit of hearing from her Jemmy-Jessamy adorers.

These women were more men than our Jemmy-Jessamy countrymen.

Wiktionary

I promise you this was very different language to that she had been in the habit of hearing from her Jemmy-Jessamy adorers.

Wiktionary

i Register

In some senses, jemmy-jessamy is marked as obsolete, slang, British. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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