different between burglar vs jemmy

English

Etymology

Middle English, shortened from burgulator, from British Medieval Latin burgl?tor, from Old French burgeor (“burglar”), from Medieval Latin burg?tor (“burglar”), from burg? (“to commit burglary”), from Late Latin burgus (“fortified town”), probably from Frankish *burg (“fortress”), from Proto-Germanic *burgz, *burgij? (“borough, watch-tower”). The -l- may have been inserted under influence from Latin latro (“thief”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b???l?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b??l?/, [?b??l?]

Noun

burglar (plural burglars)

1. A person who breaks in to premises with the intent of committing theft

Related terms

Translations

Verb

burglar (third-person singular simple present burglars, present participle burglaring, simple past and past participle burglared)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To commit burglary; to burgle.
   • 1901, Emma Orczy, The Robbery in Phillimore Terrace

     The latter, with another constable, remained to watch the burglared premises both back and front, […]

See also

• robber
• thief

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mi

Noun

jemmy (plural jemmies)

1. (archaic, Britain, slang) A baked sheep's head.
2. (Australia, slang) An immigrant.
3. (obsolete, slang) A greatcoat.

   • your friend in the green jemmy

4. Alternative spelling of jimmy (crowbar).

Verb

jemmy (third-person singular simple present jemmies, present participle jemmying, simple past and past participle jemmied)

1. To shoehorn, to cram.

   two thousand people jemmied into a stadium built for fifteen hundred

2. Alternative spelling of jimmy (open with a crowbar).

Translations

Adjective

jemmy (comparative jemmier, superlative jemmiest)

1. (archaic) Neat; elegant.
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 209:

     I was agreeably surprised by seeing my young friend and companion, Robert Pott, driving up the avenue in a very jemmy equipage.

See also

• jimmy

References

• jemmy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.