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jimswinger Southern U.S.|ˈdʒɪmswɪŋə(r)|
Also jim swinger, jim-swinger.
[Origin unknown.]
In full, jimswinger coat. A swallow-tailed coat, esp. a frock coat.
1890Dialect Notes I. 389 Jim-swinger, long-tailed coat, especially a ‘Prince Albert’. 1898P. L. Dunbar Folks from Dixie 52 He walked to church, flanked on one side by Aunt Caroline..and on the other by her husband stately in the magnificence of an antiquated ‘Jim-swinger’. 1912H. & W. B. Crumpton Adv. Two Alabama Boys 78, I was a tall, slim, awkward lad, about eighteen years old, thin as a match, pale as a ghost and had on a long Jim Swinger. 1933C. Miller Lamb in Bosom v. 47 If you were a lawyer,..you wore a jimswinger coat. 1950Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xiv. 75 Cut-away and Jim swinger, formal clothes. Suwannee backwoods. 1951E. Paul Springtime in Paris i. 9 She wore indoors and out a strictly tailored swallow-tail coat, the kind American Negroes call a ‘Jimswinger’. 1972News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) 30 Dec. 4/1 Jim-swinger coat..and brogans have almost vanished. |