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- proper noun A female
given name .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Or I could stick with the name Jemima and then call her twin Jack.
Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010
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Or I could stick with the name Jemima and then call her twin Jack.
Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010
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Armed only with a pitchfork, Jemima is said to have told local women to dress in a black and red traditional costume, which the French mistook for British soldiers 'uniforms and panicked.
Militant Jemima 2006
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Her voice wavered on the name of Jemima Puddleduck.
Sonnet of the Sphinx Diana Killian 2006
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Becky’s resistance to domestication begins in the novel’s opening scene, when we see how very mistaken "honest," "good natured" Jemima is when she slips a copy of the revered Johnson’s
Acting 'Natural': Vanity Fair and the UnMasking of Anglo-American Sentiment 2006
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Calling a woman Jemima suggests an elevated upbringing how many girls from sinkhole estates do you know called Jemima?
What's in a name? Or a story title, come to that? DAVID BISHOP 2008
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Tell the young woman they call Jemima to come here to Miss Marston. "
Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864
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"My mother -- (so Violante always called Jemima) -- my mother, you have spoken to her?"
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various
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Kelly is also said to have landed a role in Skins, and is expected to play a gym trainer called Jemima in a single episode of the provocative British teen drama.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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Because I, for one, would heartily agree that having it on MLK weekend and/or dressing up as Aunt Jemima which is “black” imagery, not “ghetto” imagery is both offensive AND racist.
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