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▪ I. gym
obs. form of gim a., smart, spruce.
▪ II. gym|dʒɪm|
Colloq. abbreviation of gymnasium or gymnastics. Also attrib., as gym-dress, gym-slip, gym-tunic (these also spec. of a schoolgirl's garment not primarily for use in the gymnasium); gym-knickers, gym-mistress, gym-shoe, etc.
1871L. H. Bagg Four Yrs. at Yale i. 45 Gym, abbreviation for gymnasium. 1887H. Baumann Londinismen 70/2 Gym-shoes (statt gymnastic-shoes) Schulsprache: Turnschuhe. 1888Boy's Own Paper Summer No. 38/3 If you'll come round to the Gym. after, I'll show you. 1889Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang, Gymcad (Royal Military Academy), a gymnasium instructor. 1891H. S. Holland in S. Paget Mem. (1921) 198 We had a superb exhibition in the gym. 1907Daily Chron. 27 Nov. 3/3 The ‘gym.’ practices. 1922Joyce Ulysses 520 If you do tremble in anticipation of heel discipline to be inflicted in gym costume. 1926F. M. Ford Man could stand Up i. i. 17 Five foot four in her gym shoes. 1930Cambridge Daily News 25 Sept. 3/4 Gym slips should not be washed. 1932D. C. Minter Mod. Needlecraft 252 Gym Knickers..11/4 to 1½ yards blue or brown drill, nurse cloth or serge. 1936Daily Sketch 9 Mar. 11/2 When a girl leaves school..she throws away..her hockey sticks and her gym tunic. 1944A. Thirkell Headmistress iv. 79 Going to a physical culture college to learn to be gym and games mistresses. 1947Dylan Thomas Let. 20 May (1966) 307 She thumped the hot Florence pavements..elbowing the droll Florentines from her gym-knickered way. 1949‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-Four i. 34 A youngish woman..dressed in tunic and gym-shoes. 1949D. Smith I capture Castle i. iv. 41 My school gym-dress has a lot of life in it yet. 1961M. Spark Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ii. 24 Rose Stanley was pulling threads from the girdle of her gym tunic. 1967H. W. Sutherland Magnie iv. 64 That bloody gym dress with the black cotton stockings—and that old school hat. 1969Listener 8 May 640/3 Yes, I've got a recollection of Barbara in a gym slip at Bradford Grammar School. 1970D. Clark Deadly Pattern vi. 145 One or two of the girls were married almost before they could get out of their gym knickers. |