Jeames (1 syl.)

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.