gemmann.
/ˈdʒɛmən/ nonstandard.
= gentleman n.
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c1550 Dr. Doubble Ale 197 Did it become a cobblers boy To shew a gemman such a toy?
1762 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 86/1 You're welcome Gem'men, kindly welcome Ladies.
1770 G. Colman Oxonian in Town (London ed.) i. 5 I hope you left all the gemmin well at Oxford?
1792 ‘P. Pindar’ Lousiad: Canto IV (new ed.) 20 Which is the better gemman, I or you.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI 149 (note) If there be any Gemman so ignorant as to require a traduction.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. i. 7 Bill, you must take this here young gem'man..to this here direction.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. v. 84 Now I'll just tell you how that'll work, gemmen.
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