Meaning

4 senses
  1. Resembling jam in taste, texture, etc.

    a jammy aroma

  2. Covered in jam.

    a child's jammy fingers

    marmeladig, marmeladenverschmiert

  3. Containing jam.

    a jammy dodger biscuit

  4. (UK, colloquial)Lucky; especially undeservedly so.

    jammy bastard

    jammy sod

    schlitzohrig, nochmal davongekommen

    фартовыйfartovyj, везучийvezučij, удачливыйudačlivyj

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Yanni loves the jammy texture of figs.

  2. Honestly, you lot are jammy sods!

    deIhr seid wirklich Glückspilze! — Sudajaengi

Translations

4 languages
Русский
colloquial: lucky:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
covered in jam:
colloquial: lucky:

Forms

jammier, jammiest
Comparativejammier Lesson
Superlativejammiest Lesson

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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