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Jeames (1 syl.)

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Any flunkey. Sometimes the Morning Post is so called.

Thackeray wrote Jeames’s Diary (published in Punch), of which Jeames de la Pluche was the hero.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Javert
Jaw
Jā-wāb
Jawbone
Jay (A)
Jay
Jazey
Je Maintiendrai (I will maintain)
Je ne Sais Quoi
Jeames
Jean Crapaud
Jean Farine [Jack Flour]
Jean de Lettre (Mr. Jenkins)
Jean de la Suie (French)
Jean de la Vigne (French)
Jean des Vignes (French)
Jeannot (French)
Jebusites
Jedwood Justice
Jehennam