FromJim +-y.
Jimmy (pluralJimmysorJimmies)
- Adiminutive of the malegiven namesJames orJim, also used as a formal given name.
- 1979Charles Kuralt, Dateline America, Harcourt Brace Jovanocich,→ISBN, page 184:
- Heaven only knows why a man with a strong biblical name like James wants to be a president namedJimmy.
2024 March 27, Stephen Collinson, “Three presidents and one mission: Beat Trump”, inCNN[1]:The other living ex-presidents areJimmy Carter, who has been in hospice care for over a year, and George W. Bush, who is very friendly with both Obama and Clinton, but as a Republican is unlikely to campaign for Biden even given his disdain for Trump’s contempt for democracy.
- (Scotland, informal)A colloquial (potentially unfriendly or disparaging) way of addressing any male whose name is unknown to the speaker.
diminutive of James
- Arabic:جِيمِي(jīmī)(transliteration)
- Armenian:Ջիմի(J̌imi)(transliteration)
- Azerbaijani:Cimi(transliteration)
- Belarusian:Джымі(Džymi)(transliteration)
- Bengali:জিমি(jimi)(transliteration)
- Bulgarian:Джими(Džimi)(transliteration)
- Burmese:ဂျင်မီ(gyangmi)(transliteration)
- Carpathian Rusyn:Джімі(Džimi)(transliteration)
- Cebuano:Jimmy
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:吉米 (zh)(Jímǐ)(transliteration)
- Danish:Jimmy
- Georgian:ჯიმი(ǯimi)(transliteration)
- Greek:Τζίμι(Tzími)(transliteration)
- Hebrew:ג׳ימי(jimi)(transliteration)
- Hindi:जिमी(jimī)(transliteration)
- Irish:Séamaisín m
- Japanese:ジミー(jimī)(transliteration)
- Kannada:ಜಿಮ್ಮಿ(jimmi)(transliteration)
- Korean:지미(jimi)(transliteration)
- Latvian:Džimijs(transliteration)
- Lithuanian:Džimis(transliteration)
- Macedonian:Џими(Džimi)(transliteration)
- Malayalam:ജിമ്മി(jimmi)(transliteration)
- Persian:جیمی(jīmī)(transliteration)
- Portuguese:Tiaguinho m
- Punjabi:ਜਿੰਮੀ(jimmī)(transliteration)
- Russian:Джимми (ru)(Džimmi)(transliteration)
- Scottish Gaelic:Seumaidh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:Џими(transliteration)
- Roman:Džimi(transliteration)
- Sicilian:Jabbichinu m
- Swedish:Jimmy (sv)
- Tajik:Ҷимми(Jimm-i)(transliteration)
- Tamil:ஜிமி(jimi)(transliteration)
- Telugu:జిమ్మీ(jimmī)(transliteration)
- Thai:จิมมี(jim-mii)(transliteration)
- Ukrainian:Джиммі(Džymmi)(transliteration)
- Urdu:جمی(jimī)(transliteration)
- Uzbek:Jimi(transliteration)
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Jimmy (pluralJimmysorJimmies)
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened form ofJimmy Riddle, apiddle, apiss.
- Synonyms:piddle,piddle,pee,wee
- Alternative form ofjimmy(“a maturemalecrab”).
From the initialismGM (/ˌd͡ʒiˈɛm/), by jocular alteration of sound playing onthe diminutive given name.
Jimmy (pluralJimmysorJimmies)
- AGeneral Motors dieseltruck or diesellocomotive, or thediesel engine thereof;(by extension) anyGMC truck, even a gasoline-powered pickup or SUV.
aJimmy diesel
- Aprime mover powered by atwo-strokeDetroit Diesel engine.
1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics),Black Bear Road, performed byC. W. McCall:Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth pullin' logs.
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And aJimmy haulin' hogs.
FromEnglishJimmy.
Jimmy
- a malegiven name from English
For quotations using this term, seeCitations:Jimmy.
Borrowed fromEnglish.
Jimmy
- a malegiven name
Borrowed fromEnglishJimmy.
Jimmy c (genitiveJimmys)
- a malegiven name
2010, Susanna Alakoski,Håpas du trifs bra i fengelset, Bonniers,→ISBN, page117:Samipojkar skulle blijobbare, det var ett bra yrke för sådana som hette Conny och Sonny också. [ - - - ] Och på hjälputbildningar runt om i landet skojlärde vi oss Y-barnsregeln. Varning för alla namn som slutar på Y!: Ronny, Tommy, Billy, Tony, Eddy, Lenny,Jimmy, Benny, Jerry, Freddy.
Så skojades det. Menades det, kanske.- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
