Jemmy

He then provided the usual implements: plenty of false keys, a strong crow-bar, technically called a jemmy, an instrument used for cleaning bricks, some spirits and a slight provision of bread and meat. ❋ Unknown (2004)

If a man is found by the police busy with "jemmy" and dark lantern at a jeweller's shop door over night, the magistrate before whom he is brought the next morning, reasons from those effects to their causes in the fellow's "burglarious" ideas and volitions, with perfect confidence, and punishes him accordingly. ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)

The man in the shop, perhaps, is in the baked 'jemmy' line, or the fire-wood and hearth-stone line, or any other line which requires a floating capital of eighteen-pence or thereabouts: and he and his family live in the shop, and the small back parlour behind it. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

Devon and Cornwall Police has said it is investigating claims that officers illegally tried to "jemmy" the locked door with their metal batons after one of them dropped their phone in the back of the car during a search. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"jemmy" the police said when the wound, with the wounds upon the forehead, had been examined beneath a microscope. ❋ William Le Queux (1895)

Now, "says he, leaning close," I'll lay odds the Holnup will come through the garden in the dead watch, around four, lay out the sentry quietly, jemmy the door, then upstairs and good-night Franz-Josef, all hail Crown Prince Rudolf! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Will the "Brownites" risk using a jemmy to get him out if he is reluctant to go? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Then he began to deal out his drolleries, such as would make the dismallest jemmy guffaw, and gave vent to all manner of buffooneries; but the Caliph laughed not neither smiled, whereat ❋ Unknown (2006)

Where would be all this fine crockery work for your breakfast? you might pop your head under a pump, or drink out of your own paw; what would you do for that fine jemmy tye? ❋ Unknown (2008)

The man in the shop, perhaps, is in the baked ‘jemmy’ line, or the fire – wood and hearth – stone line, or any other line which requires a floating capital of eighteen – pence or thereabouts: and he and his family live in the shop, and the small back parlour behind it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He maintained a mental check-list on which he ticked items off: emergency hammer, gloves, screwdriver, jemmy, pocket torch, pillow case, one red rose. ❋ George, Elizabeth (2005)

Then I hopped nimbly on to a leather chair, smashed the study window with my jemmy and jumped into the night, hitting the lawn in a neat ball and rolling to my feet. ❋ Mark Gatiss (2004)

I slipped on a half-mask and, with a heavy jemmy in one hand and a dark-lantern in the other, padded across the lawn, keeping low until I reached the shelter of the house. ❋ Mark Gatiss (2004)

I had the jemmy all ready to prise open the woodwork but then discovered that it was already ajar, no doubt left so due to the heat. ❋ Mark Gatiss (2004)

I stepped back into the queasy green shadows of the gas-lamps as Delilah planted her feet firmly on the floor and, jemmy in hand, began to wrench the planks from the improvised coffin. ❋ Mark Gatiss (2004)

I bent down to the lock and rammed the jemmy into it. ❋ Mark Gatiss (2004)

"[Ngl] I'm [lowkey] Jemmy [right now]" ❋ HickeyOFPFP (2023)

“Yo man, I heard you got a [new girl]?” “[Yeah dude] she’s such a [jemmie]” ❋ Sexxypuss22 (2020)

Guy 1- wow [jemmy] smiled and said hi! Guy 2- than you lucky Guy 1- so pretty Guy 2- [good that] she not a [nancy] Guy 1- I'm going to date her once! ❋ Mysterious Guy (2015)

1) Did you just [jemmy] [in your pants]? 2) I have jemmy [all over] me. ❋ Piderman777 (2009)

Here comes [jemmy] ❋ PoloG (2019)

Here comes Jemmy ❋ PoloG (2019)

[You’re] [such a] Jemmi Jawn ❋ Velour (2018)

Jemmi is [the best person] you’[ll] ever [meet] ❋ Shut Up Jacinta (2023)

That Jemmy might not be a [baddie], but they are [definitely] [a bitch]. ❋ Madame Riz (2021)

Person A: “Oh my god, Jemmy is so cute!” Person B: “I know right? They should definitely go to [the dance] together!” Person A: “Jemmy is real.” [Emmy]: “I will actually [hit you].” ❋ Egg_broth (2021)