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Jem

proper nounattested in dialogue

A diminutive of the male given names James, Jeremy, or Jeremiah.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the male given names James, Jeremy, or Jeremiah.

    You may know what one man thinks of another by his manner of calling him. Thomas and James and Richard and William are stupid young gentlemen; Tom and Jem and Dick and Will are fine spirited fellows.

  2. 2

    A diminutive of the female given name Jemima.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

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