Noun

(gemmen)

(archaic) gentleman

*{{quote-book, year=1904, author=Randall Parrish, title=When Wilderness Was King, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=But dar am a gemman yere, sah,--" "What!" came a surprised ejaculation that caused the negro to jump, and I heard a chair overturned within. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1891, author=Martha Finley, title=Elsie's Vacation and After Events, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=But a negro servant who had been stationed as warden at the door refused to allow the messenger to pass in, saying, 'The gemman can't be disturbed.' }}

*{{quote-book, year=1825, author=Bernard Blackmantle, title=The English Spy, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=A gem-man who often comes down with me says his father was a slopseller in Ratcliffe Highway, and afterwards marrying the widow of Admiral Hughes, a rich old West India nabob, he left this young gemman the bulk of his property, and a very worthy fellow he is: but we've another rich fellow that's rather notorious at Brighton, which we distinguish by the name of the silver Ball'', only he's a bit of a ''screw'', and has lately ~285~~got himself into a scrape about a pretty actress, from which circumstance they have changed his name to the ''Foote Ball . }}

Noun

(gemmen)