Brewer's: Jeames

(1 syl.). Any flunkey. Sometimes the Morning Post is so called. Thackeray wrote Jeames's Diary (published in Punch, of which Jeames de la Pluche was the hero.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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