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Jimmy2|ˈdʒɪmɪ|
[A male personal name, pet-form and familiar equivalent of the name James.]
In various transferred senses:
1. In full, Jimmy Grant. Rhyming slang for immigrant or emigrant. Austral., N.Z., and S. Afr.
1845E. J. Wakefield Adventure N.Z. I. xi. 337 The profound contempt which the whaler expresses for the ‘lubber of a jimmy-grant’, as he calls the emigrant. 1850McLean Papers VIII. 177 (MS.), I consider Davy has done a foolish thing in selling his farm... I am glad it has not as usual fallen into the hands of ‘Jimmies’, usurpers of the soil. 1859H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn II. ix. 154 ‘What are these men that we are going to see?’ ‘Why one,’ said Lee, ‘is a young Jimmy (I beg your pardon, sir, an emigrant), the other two are old prisoners.’ 1878A. Aylward Transvaal of To-Day xi. 216, I was a raw emigrant, and still what Natalians call a ‘Jimmy’. 1922Daily Mail 11 Dec. 8 With his wife and child he had just come over as a ‘Jimmie-grant’. 1948F. Irvine-Smith Streets of my City ii. 32 At the close of 1840, there were 2,500 settlers, or in whaler parlance, ‘Jimmy Grants’, upon its shores.
2. Jimmy Ducks, Jimmy Dux. Also Jemmy Ducks. A sailor who had charge of the livestock carried on merchant ships to serve as food on long voyages. Naut. slang (Obs. exc. Hist.).
1849H. Melville Redburn I. ix. 97 He in the rudest kind of manner laughed aloud in my face, and called me a ‘Jimmy Dux’. 1850― White Jacket I. iii. 12 These fellows are all Jimmy Duxes—sorry chaps, who never put foot in ratlin, or venture above the bulwarks. 1890R. C. Leslie Old Sea Wings xiii. 177 The ship's butcher and his mate, ‘Jemmy Ducks’, formed an important part of the economy of our old East Indiamen. Ibid. 182 A gay rooster, after an exciting chase round the decks by Jemmy Ducks, escaped overboard. 1928J. Mason Before Mast in Sailing Ships 13 One of our men had deserted an Orient Liner in Sydney, and had been a ‘Jimmy Ducks’ on that vessel. 1938W. E. Dexter Rope-Yarns v. 32 ‘Sails’ or ‘Jimmy Ducks’ was the first one to get round.
3. Jimmy Low Austral., a name for red mahogany, Eucalyptus resinifera.
1887Colonial & Indian Exhib. Rep. Col. Sect. 428 Jimmy Low is usually a large tree, yielding timber of a rich red colour. 1888F. M. Bailey Queensland Woods 65 ‘Jimmy Low’. Forest Mahogany of N.S.W. Usually a very large tree with a rough, reddish, fibrous bark. 1904J. H. Maiden Forest Flora N.S.W. I. 67 In Queensland it [sc. Eucalyptus resinifera] is often called ‘Jimmy Low’, after the late Mr. James Low, of Maroochie River, a locality for some of the finest specimens in that State. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. xii. 215 Among popular names for various trees noted by Morris were Jemmy Donnelly, Jimmy Low and Roger Gough.
4. Jimmy (also Johnny) Wood(s, Woodser, a solitary drinker; a drink taken on one's own; also transf.; so Jimmy Woods nonce v., to drink alone. Austral. and N.Z. slang.
The usual form is Jimmy Woodser.
1892B. H. Boake in Bulletin (Sydney) 7 May 15/1 At the thought the heart beats quicker Than an old Bohemian's should... Bah! I'll go and have a liquor With the genial ‘Jimmy Wood’. 1898Ibid. 17 Dec. Red Page/2 The use of Christian names in this form of slang seems to have originated the Australian..Jimmy-Woodser, a solitary drinker. 1900H. Lawson Verses Pop. & Humorous 67 The old Jimmy Woodser comes into the bar, Unwelcomed, unnoticed, unknown. 1928J. Devanny Dawn Beloved ii. xxxiv. 307 Duke preferred to drink alone.., Jimmy Woods-ing, as the miners called it. 1930Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Feb. 51/4 ‘You have your holiday.’ ‘Oh, no,’ she told him..‘I'm getting too old for Jimmy Woodsers, thanks.’ 1933Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 28 Oct. 17/7 Jimmy or Johnny Woodser, slang. A drink by yourself. It is a common expression up-country in New Zealand. 19422 N.Z.E.F. Times 21 Dec. 18/2 You'll find me lonesome in a Naafi, a-drinkin' to me sins, A-sippin' like a Jimmy Woodser. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. ix. 171 A Jimmy Woodser is not only a lone drinker, but also a drink consumed by such a person. 1957D. Niland Call me when Cross turns Over i. 9 I'm a real Jimmy Woodser now. On my own. The first bird on the family tree and the last.
5. In full, Jimmy O'Goblin (also with lower-case initials). Rhyming slang for ‘sovereign’, twenty shillings. Cf. goblin2, Jemmy O'Goblin. slang.
1899A. E. W. Mason Miranda of Balcony xv. 206, I want one thousand jimmies per annum. 1931T. H. Dey Leaves from Bookmaker's Bk. xi. 180 Here's another story of a lost ‘Jimmy o' Goblin’. 1932D. L. Sayers Have his Carcase xi. 128 Three hundred golden sovereigns... Three hundred round, golden jimmy o' goblins. 1934E. Waugh Handful of Dust ii. 35 He had won five Jimmy-o-goblins at ten to three at Chester. 1956C. Smith Deadly Reaper xiv. 108 Her first husband left her half a million. Yes, sir, five hundred thousand jimmy o'goblins. 1959Spectator 3 July 5/2 The proposed sale of the Watford firm S. G. Brown Ltd., at present owned by the Admiralty..is a most unlikely haunt of businessmen, if the thirty-eight million jimmy-o'goblins they were wasting on obsolete warships a month or so ago is anything to go by. 1967C. Watson Lonelyheart 4122 xv. 149 ‘The money's paid in—five hundred nice shiny Jimmy O'goblins.’ (Dear God! Where had she last come across that one? Sapper? Henty?) 1973Times 28 June 16/2 He..had made a profit of some six million jimmy-o-goblins.
6. In full, Jimmy the One. First Lieutenant. Naut. slang. Also in various other applications (see quots.).
1916‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin viii. 147 Th' Bloke, an' Jimmy the One, an' most o' th' other orficers made a bit too. 1935Wodehouse Luck of Bodkins viii. 80 ‘By rights I ought to just go to Jimmy the One.’..‘The chief steward, sir?’ 1945[see flannel n. 1 f]. 1953E. Hyams Gentian Violet v. 76 He became second in command of a very old destroyer and as such he was perhaps the only Jimmy-the-One in the Royal Navy who was not detested by the ship's company. 1962‘E. Peters’ Funeral of Figaro i. 10 He was..used to being Number One or Jimmy the One [in a theatre]. 1970Guardian 19 Aug. 16/8 Smith told Petty Officer David Lewis, ‘We are going to have a sit-in and give the ‘Jimmy’ a hard time.’
7. dismal Jimmy: see dismal a. 7.
8. Jimmy Green = Jamie Green; a sail under the jib-boom.
1913E. K. Chatterton Ships & Ways of Other Days xii. 265 The reader will remember we called attention some time back to those spritsails which seem so curious to us moderns. They were also known as ‘water sails’ and as ‘Jimmy Greens’, both appellations being due, obviously, to the unhappy knack they possessed of scooping up the sea. 1933Sea Breezes XVII. 186 A ‘Jimmy Green’ was set along the bowsprit and jibboom under the head sails. 1944J. Masefield New Chum 155 Once one came by with an odd triangular yardless topsail, then, very rare, but now in use again. We were told that it would be called a Jimmy Green if set above a royal.
9. In full, Jimmy Riddle. Rhyming slang for piddle.
1937in Partridge Dict. Slang. 1959R. Fuller Ruined Boys i. 10 Come and have a Jimmy Riddle. 1964J. Symons End of Solomon Grundy i. ii. 34, I must do a Jimmy Riddle before I go. 1966‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 56 Said of a person with a weak bladder: 'e's got ther jimmy riddles. 1971D. Clark Sick to Death vii. 154 Mrs D. was in there having a jimmy.
10. Jimmy Howe Austral. and N.Z., = Jacky Howe s.v. Jacky 3.
1937E. Hill Great Austral. Loneliness xl. 301 A weird figure in a flour-bag, Jimmie Howe, with shoes of raw-hide laced with pandanus, Leng carried no luggage.
Add:11. Chiefly Sc. or in representation of Scottish speech: used as a form of address to a man, esp. a stranger. Cf. Jock n.1 1 a, John n. 1 b. colloq.
1981A. Gray Lanark (1982) xlii. 524 ‘It means, Jimmy, that you'd better come quietly with us,’ said a policeman... He said feebly, ‘My name is Lanark.’ ‘Don't let it worry you, Jimmy.’ 1982S. Baxter Parliamo Glasgow xi. 84 Glasgow girl enters. Girl: Hey Jimmy. Basil: How dare you interrupt me in the middle of a rehearsal! 1983P. Turnbull Fair Friday ii. 30 In Edinburgh the law students..had starched white collars..and called their clients ‘the Jimmies’. 1986R. Sproat Stunning the Punters 127 ‘Oh, aye, ah, you're no offended then, Jimmy?’ says one of the Scotch boys.
▸ U.S. regional (chiefly north-east.). Also with lower-case initial. In pl. Tiny confections, typically rod or pellet-shaped, served on ice cream or other desserts; = sprinkle n.1 Cf. hundreds and thousands at hundred n. and adj. 7.
1949Nashua (New Hampsh.) Tel. 22 Apr. 18 (advt.) Cones with Jimmies 10c–15c. 1973Esquire Apr. 130 The mystery manuscript was as sprinkled with details as an ice cream cone dipped in chocolate jimmies. 2000W. Monahan Light House x. 63 Yeah gimme a regular and one a them donits with the colored jimmies there. |