Jimmyとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɪmi/
• 韻: -ɪmi

名詞

jimmy (複数形 jimmies)

1. (複数形 only, dialectal, US, especially New England かつ Philadelphia) Chocolate sprinkles used as a topping for ice cream, cookies, or cupcakes.
   • 2009, Robert B. Parker, The Professional, Berkley Books, published 2010, →ISBN, page 232:

     “What kind of sissy eats strawberry-frosted donuts?” I said. ¶ “With jimmies,” Belson said. ¶ “I had too much respect for you,” I said, “even to mention the jimmies.”

   • 2017 September 22, Suzanne Loudermilk, “Dining review: At Giovanni's, hearty Italian fare and an old-fashioned feel”, in The Baltimore Sun‎^[1]:

     The crispy pastry tube was overflowing with sweetened, whipped ricotta and dotted with chocolate jimmies.

2. (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
3. A device used to circumvent a locking mechanism; a slim jim.
4. (slang, Royal Navy) First Lieutenant (Executive Officer)
5. (US) A jemmy; a crowbar used by burglars to open windows and doors.
6. (US, slang) A penis.
   • 1989 October 10, Ice-T (lyrics かつ music), “The Girl Tried to Kill Me”, in The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech... Just Watch What You Say!, performed by Ice-T, track 6:

     And then she said, "Gimme gimme gimme" / Jumped on my jimmy and rode me like the Wild West

7. (US, slang) A condom.
   • 1999, Amy Sohn, Run Catch Kiss, Simon & Schuster, published 2000, →ISBN, page 111:

     We moved to the futon and started fooling around. He rolled on a jimmy and I sat on top of him.

   • 2004, Murad Kalam, Night Journey, Simon & Schuster (2004), →ISBN, page 158:

     "The next time you hook up with somebody," Lovie was saying, "you better wear a jimmy, boy. With spermicide on it. […]

8. (SE, slang) Men's underwear.
9. (rare) A male crab, especially a mature male; a cock. (Sometimes capitalized.)

   Coordinate term: sook

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Jimmy.
10. (US) A coal-car.

使用する際の注意点

• Because of their brown color, the apparently false etymology of jimmies having been named after Jim Crow has led some to consider the use of the term jimmies to refer to chocolate sprinkles to be offensive. However, many people who are either unaware of this theory or who agree it is false do not consider this an offensive term.[2]

同意語

• (marijuana cigarette): see also Thesaurus:marijuana cigarette
• (sprinkles): hundreds and thousands (英国用法), sprinkles
• (penis): see also Thesaurus:penis
• (condom): see also Thesaurus:condom

動詞

jimmy (三人称単数 現在形 jimmies, 現在分詞 jimmying, 過去形および過去分詞形 jimmied)

1. To pry (something, especially a lock) open with or as if with a crowbar.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep:

     The kitchen window had been jimmied.