Jess vs Julie - What's the difference?
jess | julie |
A short form of the male given name Jesse.
A short form of the female given name Jessica.
A short form of the female given name Jessamy.
* {{quote-book
, year = 1967
, first = Barbara
, last = Sleigh
, authorlink = Barbara Sleigh
, title = (Jessamy)
, edition = 1993
, location = Sevenoaks, Kent
, publisher=Bloomsbury
, isbn = 0 340 19547 9
, page = 58
, url =
, passage = ‘Now then Kit,’ said Mr Parkinson, ‘look sharp! Help Jess' up. Where has she got to?’ ‘Here I am!’ said ' Jessamy breathlessly as “helped” rather to vigorously from behind by Kit, she arrived on her knees on the floor of the dog cart.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1967
, first = Barbara
, last = Sleigh
, authorlink = Barbara Sleigh
, title = (Jessamy)
, edition = 1993
, location = Sevenoaks, Kent
, publisher=Bloomsbury
, isbn = 0 340 19547 9
, page = 127
, url =
, passage = ‘It’s almost as if we’ve gone silly with happiness,’ said Marcus two days later. ‘Everyone in the house going round grinning like a lot of Cheshire Cats! The family I mean.’ ‘And Jess',’ said Kitto quickly. ‘Oh well, '''Jess''' is as good as family,’ said Fanny comfortably. ' Jessamy said nothing, but she looked up quickly and her smile would have rivalled any Cheshire Cat.
}}
English diminutives of male given names
English diminutives of female given names
. Popular in the latter half of the twentieth century.
* 1813 , Tracy , Poems by George Crabbe, Adolphus William Ward,The University Press 1907, page 455:
* 1917 , Cousin Julia , D. Appleton and Company, page 3:
* 2000 Jayne Anne Phillips: Mother Kind : page 156:
As a noun jess
is (falconry) a short strap fastened around the leg of a bird used in falconry, to which a leash may be fastened or jess can be a compact coal-like, velvet-black mineral, with a polish making it fit for use in jewelry.As a verb jess
is (falconry) to fasten a strap around the leg of a hawk.As a proper noun julie is
popular in the latter half of the twentieth century.jess
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)julie
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- The first-born Child had every dawning Grace / And promis'd Beauty in her form and face. / "We'll call her Julie' if you please, my dear," / The Mother cry'd, "I doat on ' Julie Vere." / "What! no Remembrance of her Aunt! for Shame! / You doat indeed! be Barbara her name!"
- "I loathe the name of Julia. Julie , in the French way, is quite pretty, but Julia! - "
- "Call her Cousin Julie then; I've no doubt she'll prefer it. She's nothing if not progressive, I believe."
- They were called Jim & Julie , professionally. It seemed such a waste to deal in fantasy, in illusion and pretend, and not christen one's endeavor more suggestively. Kate wondered if their real names were Letitia and Sylvester, or Cleopatra and Mandrake; perhaps they'd gone undercover with white-bread names in quest of posh children's parties and Yankee suitability.