jemmyn.

Brit.

/ˈdʒɛmi/, U.S.

/ˈdʒɛmi/

Forms: Also 1800s jimmy.

Etymology: A pet-form and familiar equivalent of the name James n. But in sense 1 associated with, and in senses 2, 3 probably derived from, jemmy adj.

†1.

a. A dandy or fop; a finical fellow. Obsolete.

ΘΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy

popa1500

miniona1513

prick-me-daintya1529

puppy?1544

velvet-coat1549

skipjack1554

coxcomb1567

musk cat?1567

physbuttocke1570

Adonis?1571

Adon1590

foretop1597

musk-cod1600

pretty fellow1600

sparkc1600

spangle-baby1602

flash1605

barber-monger1608

cocoloch1610

dapperling1611

fantastica1613

feather-cock1612

trig1612

jack-a-dandy?1617

gimcrack1623

satinist1639

powder puffa1653

fop1676

prig1676

foplinga1681

cockcomb1684

beau garçona1687

shape1688

duke1699

nab1699

smirk1699

beau1700

petty master1706

moppet1707

Tom Astoner1707

dapper1709

petit maître1711

buck1725

toupee1727

toupet1728

toupet-man1748

jemmy1753

jessamy1753

macaroni1764

majoc1770

monkeyrony1773

dandyc1780

elegant1780

muscadin1794

incroyable1797

beauty man1800

bang-up1811

natty1818

ruffian1818

exquisite1819

heavy swell1819

marvellous1819

bit of stuff1828

merveilleux1830

fat1832

squirt1844

dandyling1846

ineffable1859

guinea pig1860

Dundreary swell1862

masher1872

dude1877

mash1879

dudette1883

dand1886

heavy gunner1890

posh1890

nut1904

smoothie1929

fancy-pants1930

saga boy1941

fancy Dan1943

1753 Scots Mag. Oct. 490 The scale..consists of eight degrees; Greenhorn, Jemmy, Jessamy, Smart [etc.].

1764 T. Legg Low-life (ed. 3) 65 The Jemmies, Brights, Flashes, Puzzes, Pizzes and Smarts of the Town.

b. Jemmy Jessamy (or Jemmy Jessamine) attributive, dandified, foppish, effeminate. See jessamy n. 4.

ΘΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > dandyish

quaintc1330

skipjack1598

satin1603

coxcombly1610

prigginga1627

coxcombical1649

skipjackly1674

jessamy1696

beauish1699

foppish1699

priggish1701

Jemmy Jessamine1786

macaronian1792

buckish1806

dandy1813

dandified1826

dandyish1826

Brummellian1829

dandyic1832

dandiacal1834

squirtish1843

macaronyish1858

fine-gentlemanish1865

foppy1878

dude1879

dudish1883

fancy1891

1786 Pogonologia 51 You pretty fellows of the present day, Jemmy Jessamy persons, jolly bucks.

1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vi. 109 A Jemmy Jessamy lover in a wood.

1823 E. Nares Heraldic Anom. (1824) II. 356 Who is this Jemmy Jessamine Gentleman?—I am Charmoleus the Dandy, universally admired for my shape and figure and complexion.

†2. A kind of riding-boot; also jemmy boot.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > for specific purpose > for riding > types of

whole-chase boot1656

jemmy1753

bota1828

troop-boot1885

1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris i. 20 When I hunt with the King..I'll on with my Jemmys; none of your black Bags and Jack Boots for me.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 23 Who..made his appearance in a pair of new jemmy boots.

†3. A light cane, a switch. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun] > cane or switch

sallow twigc1440

ferule-rod1528

ferule1559

ferula1579

cane1590

ferular1594

saplinga1712

jemmy1753

bamboo rattan1796

sallow switch1802

lathi1850

1753 Scots Mag. Oct. 490/2 I..carried in my hand a little switch, which, as it has been long appendant to the character that I had just assumed, has taken the same name, and is called a Jemmy.

Categories »

4. plural. ‘A species of woollen cloth. Aberd.’ (Jamieson 1808–18).

5. A great-coat.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > overcoat

greatcoat1647

out-coat1684

wide coat1698

big coat1720

overcoat1802

trusty1804

jemmy1836

reefer1870

bridge coat1915

orchestration1939

lead sheet1942

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 8 But if I'd been your friend in the green jemmy—damn me—punch his head,—'cod I would.

6. A crowbar used by burglars, generally made in sections screwing together.

ΘΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > lever or crowbar > [noun]

lever1297

speke1366

crowa1400

gavelock1497

prisea1500

handspoke1513

porter1538

sway1545

handspike1559

heaver1598

coleweigh1600

handspeek1644

forcer1649

ringer1650

ripping-chisel1659

pinch1685

crow-spike1692

Betty1700

wringer1703

crowbar1748

spike1771

pry1803

jemmy1811

crow-iron1817

dog1825

pinchbar1837

jimmy1848

stick1848

pry bar1872

peiser1873

nail bar1929

cane1930

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > burglary > [noun] > instruments used by burglars

tricker1591

mill1607

iron1681

Betty1700

centre-bit1746

rook1788

jemmy1811

roundabout1811

James1819

jimmy1848

stick1848

Jack-in-the-box1850

Jack1862

alderman1872

cane1930

1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Jemmy, a crow..much used by house~breakers. Sometimes called Jemmy Rock.

1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxix. 228 As expert a housebreaker as ever handled a jemmy.

1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) vii, in Writings I. 59 Fame, won by highway pistol, or burglar's jemmy.

1889 D. C. Murray & H. Murray Dangerous Catspaw 26 A complete set of jemmies, of all sizes.

7. A sheep's head as a dish.

ΘΠ

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > mutton > [noun] > sheep's head

sheep's head1542

wether heada1796

James1827

jemmy1836

mutton chop1864

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 153 The man in the shop, perhaps, is in the baked ‘jemmy’ line.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 42/1 They..had a ‘prime hot Jemmy a-piece’.

1888 W. E. Henley & R. L. Stevenson Deacon Brodie (rev. ed.) iv. i. 74 You're all jaw like a sheep's jimmy.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

jemmyadj.

Brit.

/ˈdʒɛmi/, U.S.

/ˈdʒɛmi/

Forms: Also 1800s gemmy, gimmy, jimmy.

Etymology: derivative of jim, gim adj.

Obsolete exc. dialect.

Spruce, neat, smart; neatly-made; dexterous.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > skilful or adroit

hendc1275

happya1400

clean1485

habile1485

practivea1500

feat1519

well-handeda1529

handsome1542

trick1542

neat1571

dexterous1622

adroit1652

right-handeda1661

artful1663

nitle1673

ambidextrousa1682

clever1716

jemmy1751

slick1807

sleek1822

cleverish1826

featy1844

two-handed1861

nifty1889

mean1918

organized1926

ept1938

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adjective] > neat or trim

netc1330

pertc1330

cleanc1386

nicec1400

picked?c1425

dapperc1440

feata1471

gim1513

trig1513

well-trimmedc1513

trick1533

smirk1534

tricksy1552

neat1559

netty1573

deft1579

primpc1590

briska1593

smug1598

spruce1598

sprink1602

terse1602

compt1632

nitle1673

sprig1675

snod1691

tight1697

smugged1706

snug1714

pensy1718

fitty1746

jemmy1751

sprucy1774

smartc1778

natty1785

spry1806

perjink1808

soigné1821

nutty1823

toiletted1823

taut1829

spick and span1846

spicy1846

groomed1853

spiffy1853

well-groomed1865

bandboxy1870

perjinkity1880

spick-span1888

bandbox1916

tiddly1925

whip-smart1937

spit and polish1950

spit-and-polished1977

1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little ii. vi. 179 His great Ambition was to be deemed a jemmy Fellow.

1756 Connoisseur No. 112. ⁋7 The jemmy frock with plate buttons.

1771 P. Parsons Newmarket II. 89 His jemmy turn'd-down boots.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Gim, gimmy, spruce, neat, smart.

1828 C. Lamb Let. 11 Oct. (1935) III. 178 A smart cockd beaver and a jemmy cane.

Compounds

jemmy-stitched adj.

ΚΠ

1817 Mrs. Ross Balance of Comfort (ed. 3) I. xxiii. 246 Only a piece of muslin rag, neatly jemmy-stitched.

jemmy-worked adj.

ΚΠ

1762 T. Jefferson Corr. in Wks. (1859) I. 181 They carried away my jemmy-worked silk garters.

Derivatives

ˈjemmily adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adverb] > neatly or trimly

feata1525

pickedlya1528

trimly1534

trim1544

netly1564

neata1578

neatly1577

smugly?1578

deftly1579

neatly1581

trickly1581

trick1594

sprucely1598

spruce?1605

comptly1611

snogly1615

spruntly1631

queemly1703

snodly1721

trigly1728

tidilya1756

natty1810

spick and span1815

tightly1825

featly1834

jemmily1837

nattily1849

dapperly1858

snappily1936

1837 New Monthly Mag. 51 194 A stick to be carried jemmily under the arm, in Portsmouth fashion.

ˈjemminess n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [noun] > neatness or trimness

dapperness1530

featishness1530

trimness1552

neatness1555

featness1576

pickedness1578

spruceness1594

comptness1611

deftness1612

smugness1632

jemminess1756

spick and span1758

smartness1768

sprucery1813

dapperism1830

nattiness1846

sleekness1866

spit and polish1895

spick-and-spanness1911

1756 F. Greville & F. Greville Maxims, Characters, & Refl. 125 Its fort shall be either convenience or jemminess.

1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Jemminess, spruceness. A colloquial expression; not much used in serious writing.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

jemmyv.

Brit.

/ˈdʒɛmi/, U.S.

/ˈdʒɛmi/

Forms: Also 1900s– jimmy (see jimmy n.¹ and v.).

Etymology: < jemmy n. 6.

colloquial.

transitive. To force open (a lock, window, etc.) with a jemmy or similar implement. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] > a door, gate, etc. > unlock, unbolt, etc. > pick or force (a lock)

unpicka1393

picka1450

shoot1637

force1855

jemmy1893

1893 J. Hawthorne Confessions of Convict iii. 49 We took the safe..and carried it..to the basement... We jimmied it open in no time.

1893 J. Hawthorne Confessions of Convict xi. 172 I have drilled holes in large safes so accurately that the bolts could be ‘jimmied’ without leaving a mark.

1905 N.Y. Evening Post 22 Dec. 3 The thieves jimmied the front door.

1922 R. Parrish Case & Girl xxxii. 247 Finally we jimmied open the back door of this garage.

1933 J. V. Turner Homicide Haven xvii. 206 Ripple had demonstrated that even with a garden pick a window can be easily jemmied.

1973 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 8 Apr. 5/2 Not a footprint, not a gate left open or a lock jemmied.

1973 Sat. Rev. Society (U.S.) May 42/2 Any attempt to jimmy the doors, hood, or trunk will cause the horn to begin sounding.

1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 June 741/3 Her stable of talented students..would have had a harder row to hoe if Mary Quant had not jemmied open the door for young designers.

1980 Amateur Gardening 4 Oct. 31/1 A garden spade is just about the best tool there is for jemmying a door or window.

1991 D. Coupland Generation X ii. xv. 86 Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.1753

adj.1751

v.1893

单词	jemmy
释义	jemmyn. Brit. /ˈdʒɛmi/, U.S. /ˈdʒɛmi/ Forms: Also 1800s jimmy. Etymology: A pet-form and familiar equivalent of the name James n. But in sense 1 associated with, and in senses 2, 3 probably derived from, jemmy adj. †1. a. A dandy or fop; a finical fellow. Obsolete. ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy popa1500 miniona1513 prick-me-daintya1529 puppy?1544 velvet-coat1549 skipjack1554 coxcomb1567 musk cat?1567 physbuttocke1570 Adonis?1571 Adon1590 foretop1597 musk-cod1600 pretty fellow1600 sparkc1600 spangle-baby1602 flash1605 barber-monger1608 cocoloch1610 dapperling1611 fantastica1613 feather-cock1612 trig1612 jack-a-dandy?1617 gimcrack1623 satinist1639 powder puffa1653 fop1676 prig1676 foplinga1681 cockcomb1684 beau garçona1687 shape1688 duke1699 nab1699 smirk1699 beau1700 petty master1706 moppet1707 Tom Astoner1707 dapper1709 petit maître1711 buck1725 toupee1727 toupet1728 toupet-man1748 jemmy1753 jessamy1753 macaroni1764 majoc1770 monkeyrony1773 dandyc1780 elegant1780 muscadin1794 incroyable1797 beauty man1800 bang-up1811 natty1818 ruffian1818 exquisite1819 heavy swell1819 marvellous1819 bit of stuff1828 merveilleux1830 fat1832 squirt1844 dandyling1846 ineffable1859 guinea pig1860 Dundreary swell1862 masher1872 dude1877 mash1879 dudette1883 dand1886 heavy gunner1890 posh1890 nut1904 smoothie1929 fancy-pants1930 saga boy1941 fancy Dan1943 1753 Scots Mag. Oct. 490 The scale..consists of eight degrees; Greenhorn, Jemmy, Jessamy, Smart [etc.]. 1764 T. Legg Low-life (ed. 3) 65 The Jemmies, Brights, Flashes, Puzzes, Pizzes and Smarts of the Town. b. Jemmy Jessamy (or Jemmy Jessamine) attributive, dandified, foppish, effeminate. See jessamy n. 4. ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > dandyish quaintc1330 skipjack1598 satin1603 coxcombly1610 prigginga1627 coxcombical1649 skipjackly1674 jessamy1696 beauish1699 foppish1699 priggish1701 Jemmy Jessamine1786 macaronian1792 buckish1806 dandy1813 dandified1826 dandyish1826 Brummellian1829 dandyic1832 dandiacal1834 squirtish1843 macaronyish1858 fine-gentlemanish1865 foppy1878 dude1879 dudish1883 fancy1891 1786 Pogonologia 51 You pretty fellows of the present day, Jemmy Jessamy persons, jolly bucks. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vi. 109 A Jemmy Jessamy lover in a wood. 1823 E. Nares Heraldic Anom. (1824) II. 356 Who is this Jemmy Jessamine Gentleman?—I am Charmoleus the Dandy, universally admired for my shape and figure and complexion. †2. A kind of riding-boot; also jemmy boot. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > for specific purpose > for riding > types of whole-chase boot1656 jemmy1753 bota1828 troop-boot1885 1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris i. 20 When I hunt with the King..I'll on with my Jemmys; none of your black Bags and Jack Boots for me. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 23 Who..made his appearance in a pair of new jemmy boots. †3. A light cane, a switch. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun] > cane or switch sallow twigc1440 ferule-rod1528 ferule1559 ferula1579 cane1590 ferular1594 saplinga1712 jemmy1753 bamboo rattan1796 sallow switch1802 lathi1850 1753 Scots Mag. Oct. 490/2 I..carried in my hand a little switch, which, as it has been long appendant to the character that I had just assumed, has taken the same name, and is called a Jemmy. Categories » 4. plural. ‘A species of woollen cloth. Aberd.’ (Jamieson 1808–18). 5. A great-coat. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > overcoat greatcoat1647 out-coat1684 wide coat1698 big coat1720 overcoat1802 trusty1804 jemmy1836 reefer1870 bridge coat1915 orchestration1939 lead sheet1942 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 8 But if I'd been your friend in the green jemmy—damn me—punch his head,—'cod I would. 6. A crowbar used by burglars, generally made in sections screwing together. ΘΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lever or crowbar > [noun] lever1297 speke1366 crowa1400 gavelock1497 prisea1500 handspoke1513 porter1538 sway1545 handspike1559 heaver1598 coleweigh1600 handspeek1644 forcer1649 ringer1650 ripping-chisel1659 pinch1685 crow-spike1692 Betty1700 wringer1703 crowbar1748 spike1771 pry1803 jemmy1811 crow-iron1817 dog1825 pinchbar1837 jimmy1848 stick1848 pry bar1872 peiser1873 nail bar1929 cane1930 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > burglary > [noun] > instruments used by burglars tricker1591 mill1607 iron1681 Betty1700 centre-bit1746 rook1788 jemmy1811 roundabout1811 James1819 jimmy1848 stick1848 Jack-in-the-box1850 Jack1862 alderman1872 cane1930 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Jemmy, a crow..much used by house~breakers. Sometimes called Jemmy Rock. 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxix. 228 As expert a housebreaker as ever handled a jemmy. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) vii, in Writings I. 59 Fame, won by highway pistol, or burglar's jemmy. 1889 D. C. Murray & H. Murray Dangerous Catspaw 26 A complete set of jemmies, of all sizes. 7. A sheep's head as a dish. ΘΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > mutton > [noun] > sheep's head sheep's head1542 wether heada1796 James1827 jemmy1836 mutton chop1864 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 153 The man in the shop, perhaps, is in the baked ‘jemmy’ line. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 42/1 They..had a ‘prime hot Jemmy a-piece’. 1888 W. E. Henley & R. L. Stevenson Deacon Brodie (rev. ed.) iv. i. 74 You're all jaw like a sheep's jimmy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). jemmyadj. Brit. /ˈdʒɛmi/, U.S. /ˈdʒɛmi/ Forms: Also 1800s gemmy, gimmy, jimmy. Etymology: derivative of jim, gim adj. Obsolete exc. dialect. Spruce, neat, smart; neatly-made; dexterous. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > skilful or adroit hendc1275 happya1400 clean1485 habile1485 practivea1500 feat1519 well-handeda1529 handsome1542 trick1542 neat1571 dexterous1622 adroit1652 right-handeda1661 artful1663 nitle1673 ambidextrousa1682 clever1716 jemmy1751 slick1807 sleek1822 cleverish1826 featy1844 two-handed1861 nifty1889 mean1918 organized1926 ept1938 the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adjective] > neat or trim netc1330 pertc1330 cleanc1386 nicec1400 picked?c1425 dapperc1440 feata1471 gim1513 trig1513 well-trimmedc1513 trick1533 smirk1534 tricksy1552 neat1559 netty1573 deft1579 primpc1590 briska1593 smug1598 spruce1598 sprink1602 terse1602 compt1632 nitle1673 sprig1675 snod1691 tight1697 smugged1706 snug1714 pensy1718 fitty1746 jemmy1751 sprucy1774 smartc1778 natty1785 spry1806 perjink1808 soigné1821 nutty1823 toiletted1823 taut1829 spick and span1846 spicy1846 groomed1853 spiffy1853 well-groomed1865 bandboxy1870 perjinkity1880 spick-span1888 bandbox1916 tiddly1925 whip-smart1937 spit and polish1950 spit-and-polished1977 1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little ii. vi. 179 His great Ambition was to be deemed a jemmy Fellow. 1756 Connoisseur No. 112. ⁋7 The jemmy frock with plate buttons. 1771 P. Parsons Newmarket II. 89 His jemmy turn'd-down boots. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Gim, gimmy, spruce, neat, smart. 1828 C. Lamb Let. 11 Oct. (1935) III. 178 A smart cockd beaver and a jemmy cane. Compounds jemmy-stitched adj. ΚΠ 1817 Mrs. Ross Balance of Comfort (ed. 3) I. xxiii. 246 Only a piece of muslin rag, neatly jemmy-stitched. jemmy-worked adj. ΚΠ 1762 T. Jefferson Corr. in Wks. (1859) I. 181 They carried away my jemmy-worked silk garters. Derivatives ˈjemmily adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adverb] > neatly or trimly feata1525 pickedlya1528 trimly1534 trim1544 netly1564 neata1578 neatly1577 smugly?1578 deftly1579 neatly1581 trickly1581 trick1594 sprucely1598 spruce?1605 comptly1611 snogly1615 spruntly1631 queemly1703 snodly1721 trigly1728 tidilya1756 natty1810 spick and span1815 tightly1825 featly1834 jemmily1837 nattily1849 dapperly1858 snappily1936 1837 New Monthly Mag. 51 194 A stick to be carried jemmily under the arm, in Portsmouth fashion. ˈjemminess n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [noun] > neatness or trimness dapperness1530 featishness1530 trimness1552 neatness1555 featness1576 pickedness1578 spruceness1594 comptness1611 deftness1612 smugness1632 jemminess1756 spick and span1758 smartness1768 sprucery1813 dapperism1830 nattiness1846 sleekness1866 spit and polish1895 spick-and-spanness1911 1756 F. Greville & F. Greville Maxims, Characters, & Refl. 125 Its fort shall be either convenience or jemminess. 1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Jemminess, spruceness. A colloquial expression; not much used in serious writing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). jemmyv. Brit. /ˈdʒɛmi/, U.S. /ˈdʒɛmi/ Forms: Also 1900s– jimmy (see jimmy n.¹ and v.). Etymology: < jemmy n. 6. colloquial. transitive. To force open (a lock, window, etc.) with a jemmy or similar implement. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] > a door, gate, etc. > unlock, unbolt, etc. > pick or force (a lock) unpicka1393 picka1450 shoot1637 force1855 jemmy1893 1893 J. Hawthorne Confessions of Convict iii. 49 We took the safe..and carried it..to the basement... We jimmied it open in no time. 1893 J. Hawthorne Confessions of Convict xi. 172 I have drilled holes in large safes so accurately that the bolts could be ‘jimmied’ without leaving a mark. 1905 N.Y. Evening Post 22 Dec. 3 The thieves jimmied the front door. 1922 R. Parrish Case & Girl xxxii. 247 Finally we jimmied open the back door of this garage. 1933 J. V. Turner Homicide Haven xvii. 206 Ripple had demonstrated that even with a garden pick a window can be easily jemmied. 1973 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 8 Apr. 5/2 Not a footprint, not a gate left open or a lock jemmied. 1973 Sat. Rev. Society (U.S.) May 42/2 Any attempt to jimmy the doors, hood, or trunk will cause the horn to begin sounding. 1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 June 741/3 Her stable of talented students..would have had a harder row to hoe if Mary Quant had not jemmied open the door for young designers. 1980 Amateur Gardening 4 Oct. 31/1 A garden spade is just about the best tool there is for jemmying a door or window. 1991 D. Coupland Generation X ii. xv. 86 Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1753adj.1751v.1893
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