Demmie

demmie English Alternative forms en Demmy Etymology From en Dem -ie, from en Democrat. Noun en US politics slang now rare A member or supporter of the Democratic Party. en Democrat Dem en 1888 Hear the Joyful Song The Tippecanoe Campaign Songster: Harrison and Morton; Sketch of Their Lives and Full Text of the Republican Platform W. F. Shaw Co. 3z0SAQAAMAAJ 17 Demmies Let the Demmies rail and shout, / And what is it all about, / When they prate of “tariff and reform?” / By their actions in the past / Well we know from first to last, / What the wonders are that they'd perform. en 1931 May James P. Egan Comment on the National Show Machinists' Monthly Journal Washington, D.C. w:International Association of Machinists 43 5 https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/IAM/id/54100/rec/1 300 The cheapness of these so-called “great” men was shown when a Senate committee on Unemployment Insurance elected their chairman. Senator Wagner, a Demmy, presented the motion in the Senate that Unemployment Insurance be probed. He, together with Senators Hebert (R. I.) and Glenn (Ill.) were appointed on the committee in the order named. Further reading demmy n kqoatzq