1823. Bee, Dict. of the Turf, s.v. Jemmy (bloody)—a sheep’s head;
so called from a great dealer in these delicious morceaux.
1835. Dickens, Sketches by Boz, p. 41. The man in the shop,
perhaps, is in the baked jemmy line.
1837. Dickens, Oliver Twist, xx. [See ante, sense 1, quot. 1837].
1843. Moncrieff, Scamps of London, ii. I shall stand a jemmy and
sauce at Mother White’s.
1851–61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab. &c. ii, 48. They clubbed together for a
good supper of tripe, or had a ‘prime hot jemmy’ apiece.
1884. Henley & Stevenson, Deacon Brodie, iv, 1. You’re all jaw like
a sheep’s jimmy.