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Spruce vs Jemmy - What's the difference?

spruce | jemmy |

As nouns the difference between spruce and jemmy

is that spruce is any of various large coniferous evergreen trees from the genus picea , found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir while jemmy is (archaic|british|slang) a baked sheep's head.

As adjectives the difference between spruce and jemmy

is that spruce is (comparable) smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person) while jemmy is (archaic) of spruce.

As verbs the difference between spruce and jemmy

is that spruce is to arrange neatly; tidy up while jemmy is to shoehorn, to cram.

spruce

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees from the genus Picea , found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
  • (uncountable) The wood of a spruce.
  • (used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce.
    • That spruce table is beautiful!
  • (obsolete) Prussia leather; pruce.
  • * E. Phillips
    • Spruce , a sort of leather corruptly so called for Prussia leather.

    See also

    * (Spruce) * (Picea)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (comparable) Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).
  • * 1919 ,
    • He had great neatness of person, and he continued to wear his spruce black coat and his bowler hat, always a little too small for him, in a dapper, jaunty manner.
  • * 2012 , The Economist, 13th Oct 2012, Plessey returns: Chips with everything
    • The two clean rooms, where chips are made, are sprucer than a hospital theatre.

    Verb

    (spruc)
  • To arrange neatly; tidy up.
  • ) To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).
  • To tease.

    • Derived terms

    * (l)

    References

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    Anagrams

    * (l)

    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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