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Jemmied vs Jimmied - What's the difference?

jemmied | jimmied |

As verbs the difference between jemmied and jimmied

is that jemmied is past tense of jemmy while jimmied is past tense of jimmy.

jemmied

English

Verb

(head)
  • (jemmy)

    • jemmy

    English

    Noun

    (jemmies)
  • (archaic, British, slang) A baked sheep's head.
  • (Australia, slang) An immigrant.
  • (obsolete, slang) A greatcoat.
  • * Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers :
    • your friend in the green jemmy
  • (crowbar).

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To shoehorn, to cram.
    • two thousand people jemmied into a stadium built for fifteen hundred
  • (open with a crowbar).

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (archaic) Of spruce.

    • See also

    * jimmy

    References

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    jimmied

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (jimmy)

    • Jimmy

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • or Jim, also used as a formal given name.
  • * 1979 , Dateline America, Harcourt Brace Jovanocich, ISBN 0151239576, page 184:
    • Heaven only knows why a man with a strong biblical name like James wants to be a president named Jimmy .
  • (Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened form of (Jimmy Riddle), a piddle.

    • Synonyms

    * (piddle) piddle, pee, wee

    Derived terms

    * Jimmy Riddle * Jimmy Woodser