Jemmy-Jessamy

English Alternative forms en Jemmy Jessamy Noun Jemmy-Jessamy en obsolete British slang A dandy; a fop. en buck popinjay Thesaurus:dandy Adjective en obsolete British slang Foppish; effeminate; dandyish. en dandy buckish Thesaurus:foppish en 1786 Pogonologia Jacques-Antoine Dulaure; Edward (transl.) Drewe Exeter R. Thorn https://archive.org/details/b28777621 55 These women were more men than our Jemmy-Jessamy countrymen. en 1844 The Luck of Barry Lyndon w:William Makepeace Thackeray 13 I promise you this was very different language to that she had been in the habit of hearing from her Jemmy-Jessamy adorers. References 4 45 en 1873 John Camden Hotten The Slang Dictionary https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42108/42108-h/42108-h.htm#:~:text=board%20a%20ship%2E%E2%80%94Sea%2E-,Jemmy%20Jessamy,-%2C%20a%20dandy%2E