jhemes
Yola edit
Noun edit
jhemes
- Alternative form of chemis
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 64:
- Reed jhemes.
- Red rags.
- 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 100:
- Amang wefty jhemes, 'cha jeist ee-rid apan.
- Among cobwebby scraps, I have just alighted on.
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 48