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jimmies

jimmies

8.2
Small sweet pieces like chocolate or candy used to decorate ice cream and cakes
  • noun
  • /ˈdʒɪmiz/
  • US
translation icon : chispas de chocolate
  • She topped her ice cream sundae with colorful jimmies for extra sweetness.

Examples

  • For the party, we decorated the cake with chocolate jimmies and fresh fruit.

  • The bakery offers cupcakes adorned with jimmies and creamy frosting.

  • And so when I did Big Fish for the Jimmies, I had that wig myself.

  • And can you sprinkle chocolate sprinkles on the jimmies on the Brilliant.

  • The Tangier Jimmies versus the Smith Island Blue Claws.

    Academic text (1994)

Synonyms

sprinkles
vsjimmies
  • US
1.0

Small sweet pieces of chocolate or colored sugar that you put on cakes and ice cream

are limited to chocolate or candy pieces rather than colored sugar

Surface Forms

jimmies singular
jimmies plural
jimmy singular

Morphology

jimmies = jimmy (transparent) = jimmy + s

Regular plural -s added to the simplex noun 'jimmy'; the plural formation is straightforward.

Etymology

The word jimmies may come from a baker's name like Jimmy, according to a popular story, so it was used for the small candy bits sold for cakes and ice cream. A helpful way to remember jimmies is to think of the little pieces you 'sprinkle' on your sundae or cone.