Jemmy

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É›mi

Full definition of jemmy

Noun

1. (archaic, British, slang) A baked sheep's head.
2. (Australia, slang) An immigrant.
3. (obsolete, slang) A greatcoat.
• Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers:your friend in the green jemmy
4. Alternative spelling of jimmy (crowbar).

Verb

1. To shoehorn, to cram.two thousand people jemmied into a stadium built for fifteen hundred
2. Alternative spelling of jimmy (open with a crowbar).

Adjective

1. (archaic) Of spruce.