Jimmy

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪmi/

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• Rhymes: -ɪmi

From Jim + -y.

Jimmy (plural Jimmys or Jimmies)

1. A diminutive of the male given names James or Jim, also used as a formal given name.
   • 1979 Charles 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 named Jimmy.

   • 2024 March 27, Stephen Collinson, “Three presidents and one mission: Beat Trump”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The other living ex-presidents are Jimmy 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.

2. (Scotland, informal) A colloquial (potentially unfriendly or disparaging) way of addressing any male whose name is unknown to the speaker.

Jimmy (plural Jimmys or Jimmies)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened form of Jimmy Riddle, a piddle, a piss.

   Synonyms: piddle, piddle, pee, wee

2. Alternative form of jimmy (“a mature male crab”).

From the initialism GM (/ˌd͡ʒiˈɛm/), by jocular alteration of sound playing on the diminutive given name.

Jimmy (plural Jimmys or Jimmies)

1. A General Motors diesel truck or diesel locomotive, or the diesel engine thereof; (by extension) any GMC truck, even a gasoline-powered pickup or SUV.

   a Jimmy diesel

   1. A prime mover powered by a two-stroke Detroit Diesel engine.
      • 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. 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 a Jimmy haulin' hogs.

From English Jimmy.

Jimmy

1. a male given name from English

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Jimmy.

• Jimmi

Borrowed from English.

Jimmy

1. a male given name

• Jimmie

Borrowed from English Jimmy.

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Jimmy c (genitive Jimmys)

1. a male given name
   • 2010, Susanna Alakoski, Håpas du trifs bra i fengelset, Bonniers, →ISBN, page 117:

     Samipojkar skulle bli jobbare, 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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)