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Jimmies is the most popular term for chocolate sprinkles in the Boston, Philadelphia, and New England regions. [4] The origin of the name jimmies is uncertain, but it was first documented in 1930, as a topping for cake. [5] The Just Born Candy Company of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, claims to have invented jimmies and named them after an employee ...
Jimmy is a male given name. It is predominately used as a diminutive form of the given name James, along with its short form, Jim.. Both can also be used as the adaptation into English of the modern Greek name Dimitris (Δημήτρης) or the older Dimitrios (Δημήτριος), especially amongst Greek immigrants in English-speaking countries, due the similarity in the sound of the short ...
Demetrius is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek male given name Dēmḗtrios (Δημήτριος), meaning "devoted to goddess Demeter".Alternate forms include Demetrios, Dimitrios, Dimitris, Dmytro, Dimitri, Dimitrie, Dimitar, Dumitru, Demitri, Dhimitër, and Dimitrije, [1] [2] in addition to other forms (such as Russian Dmitry) descended from it.
"Jimmy Crack Corn" or "Blue-Tail Fly" is an American song which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the Virginia Minstrels. It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the beginning of the American folk music revival and has since become a popular children's song.
In the United States, traditional nonpareils gave way for most purposes by the mid 20th century to "sprinkles" (known in some parts as "jimmies"; however, jimmies are typically the longer tubular sprinkles generally used as an ice cream topping), confections nearly as small but usually oblong rather than round and soft rather than brittle.
It is a modern descendant, through Old French James, of Vulgar Latin Iacomus (cf. Italian Giacomo, Portuguese Tiago or Thiago (in ancient spelling although still used as a first name), Spanish Iago, Santiago), a derivative version of Latin Iacobus, Latin form of the Hebrew name Jacob (original Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב). [2]
This word has its origin in Portuguese Inglês, meaning 'Englishman'. [45] [46] A derivative is the term Angrezan or Angrezni, meaning an Englishwoman. [46] Among the Europeans, the Portuguese were the first to arrive in India. The influx of the Portuguese led to language contact between their tongue and the local languages.
A crowbar with a curved chisel end to provide a fulcrum for leverage and a goose neck to pull nails. A crowbar, also called a wrecking bar, pry bar or prybar, pinch-bar, or occasionally a prise bar or prisebar, colloquially gooseneck, or pig bar, or in Australia a jemmy, [1] is a lever consisting of a metal bar with a single curved end and flattened points, used to force two objects apart or ...