Jim vs Kim - What's the difference?
jim | kim |
, a short form of Kimball or Kimberley.
* 1901 , Chapter 1
used since 1940s, a short form of Kimberly/Kimberley.
* 1926 , Show Boat , Doubleday, Page & Co, page 1:
* 1991 , Mao II , Viking, ISBN 0670839043, page 16
), the most common Korean surname.
As nouns the difference between jim and kim
is that jim is jeem while kim is pincers, clamp.kim
English
Alternative forms
* Gim (Korean surname )Proper noun
(en proper noun)- The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim ’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.
- Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. - - - It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly enough, born .
- It will take some getting used to, a husband named Kim'. She has known girls named '''Kim''' since she was a squirt in a sunsuit. Quite a few really. Kimberleys and plain ' Kims .