jam n.3
1. an attractive woman.
 | ‘Just the Identical Man’ [broadside ballad] And he made this young girl feel queer When he called me his jam, His pet and his lamb [F&H]. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 159/1: Jam (Lower Class, 1880 on). Pretty girl – presumably of easy habits. The story of this word is very interesting. A girl of notoriety in Piccadilly was named ‘Tart’. She, in compliment to her sweetness, came to be styled jam tart, and the knowing ones would ask ‘Would you like a bit of jam tart?’ Then the tyranny of brevity asserting itself, the phrase became ‘jam’, which lasted twenty years. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sport (Adelaide) 17 Aug. 14/2: They Say [...] That Peter P. loves a certain jam. | |
| Cockney At Home 62: But I felt somehow a bit sorry for young Soph. She was sech jam all over. And Billy, he was only kitchen stuff. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Und. Speaks n.p.: Jam, a sweetheart (prison). | |
| Duke viii: Jam – a girl of easy virtue. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 243: jam n. [...] 2. Attractive female. |
2. sexual activity, incl. intercourse, with a woman.
| Dict. of Sl., Jargon and Cant. | |
| [perf. Vesta Tilley] The Parrot and the Parson 🎵 She kissed him once or twice, said the Parson, ‘This is nice.’ / And the parrot shouted ‘Jam, jam, jam’. | |
| Duke 54: I don’t pay for that other stuff. When I want jam I get it for nothing. | |
| Run, Chico, Run (1959) 18: Why not let the kid come? I bet he ain’t never had no jam. Pitcher’ll toss him plenty. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 150: Expressions like ‘I’m gonna get me some [...] jam, sweet potato’ reflect a sense of sweet-tasting sex, of nourishment, of being fed. |
3. (later use US black) the vagina.
| Randiana 10: I Ascertain the Meaning of ‘Real Jam’. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 243: jam n. 1. Female’s genitalia. | |
| Lowspeak. |
In phrases
1. the vagina; thus have a bit of jam, to have sexual intercourse.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
2. an attractive woman; occas of a man (see cite 1891).
| Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Mar. 8/2: A most affecting incident occurred at the theatre on Monday evening last, when that ‘sweet little bit of jam,’ Miss Adelle, stepped on the stage. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Sept. 9/3: [S]ome of his young ladies are ‘bits of jam.’ In thus describing their charms we are quoting from the Variety Entertainment. They were, furthermore, referred to as ‘tarts,’ but we won’t go so far as to call them ‘tarts.’ We will merely smack our little lips and apostrophise them as ‘sweets.’. | |
| Dead Bird (Sydney) 22 Nov. 5/2: Leander Rooster, though an estimable man, / Is quite susceptible to small tit-bits of jam, / And Hero, so charming, innocent, and sweet, / The Rooster thought her good enough to eat. | |
| [perf. Charles Godfrey] ‘Giddy Little Curate’ 🎵 I larked and romped, just like a merry lamb / The girls said, ‘Oh, you little bit of jam’. | |
| press cutting in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 30/2: He kisses me, he hugs me, and calls me his bit o’ jam, and then chucks me down stairs just to show me there’s no ill feeling; yet I love him like anything. |
3. a first-class example.
| Mirror of Life 15 Dec. 3/2: Josh [...] informed him of [...] the ‘real bit of jam’ for which he bad been obliged to part. |
an old woman.
| Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era. |
one’s wife.
| ‘Villon’s Good-Night’ in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 174: Gay grass-widows and lawful-jam – / A mot’s good-night to one and all! |
an extremely attractive woman.
| Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era. |