Jammier vs Jammer - What's the difference?
jammier | jammer |
(jammy)
Resembling jam in taste, texture, etc.
Covered in jam.
(colloquial) Of a person, lucky.
(slang) A gun.
Any device used to jam radio reception.
A form of swimwear used by athletes.
* 2001 , Newsgroups: rec.sport.swimming, Mon, 09 Jul 2001 21:39:52 GMT, Subject: Re: Laying out in Myrtle Beach
* 2006 , David West, 140.6 - One Man's Journey: The Metamorphosis from Casual Runner , page 62
* 2007 , Janet Evans, Janet Evans' Total Swimming , page 5
A device (e.g. a jumar) which will slide along a rope in one direction but not the other, used in rock-climbing, caving etc.
(roller derby) A player in who attempts to score points by making their way past other players.
As an adjective jammier
is (jammy).As a noun jammer is
any device used to jam radio reception.jammier
English
Adjective
(head)jammy
English
Adjective
(er)- a child's jammy fingers
Derived terms
* jamminessNoun
(jammies)jammer
English
(jammers)Noun
(en noun)- As for me, I wear a dragsuit to the pool, and regular trunks to the beach. In competitions, I wear speedos, but am more comfortable in "jammers ", which is a half-bodysuit.
- In early May, I was starting to swim in jammers which I was not accustomed to or comfortable wearing. I have always thought that wearing spandex is an earned privelege, not a birthright.
- Enter jammers' in the mid-1990s. ' Jammers have the look of biking shorts with skin-tight Lycra covering the thigh to mid-thigh or the knee, depending on the cut.
