jemmy jessamy adj.
smart, well-turned-out.
Edinburgh Mag. Nov. 328/2: These wom,en were more men than our Jemmy-Jessamy countrymen. | ||
Miseries of Human Life (1826) 100: A Jemmy Jessamy lover [...] on one knee, in the dirt, before a coy May-pole Miss. | ||
Barry Lyndon (1905) 168: This was very different language to that she had been in the habit of hearing from her Jemmy-Jessamy adorers. |