jomer

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English

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Noun

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jomer (plural jomers)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A sweetheart, or favourite girl.
    • 1859, Snowden's Magistrates Assistant, page 87:
      […] going about the county half-naked, but having good clothes, perhaps sent forward to the lodging-house by his jomer (girl); this is very often a profitable trade; the shallow-cove of course selling all the clothes he does not need himself.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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